American - Musician | March 11, 1962 -
I don't know who my dad is.
Mary Gauthier
KnowWhoDad
There's such a thing as a tribe - and family of choice.
FamilyChoiceTribeThing
Soldiers are trained not to be vulnerable, but when they come home, they've got to learn it.
HomeLearnSoldiersGotCome
I don't have the experience of being in a war.
ExperienceWarBeing
I don't ever want to tie a song in a little bow. Life doesn't work that way, and war doesn't ever work that way.
LifeWorkWarSongWantWay
I don't play everything I write. I mean, everything I write is not that good. I bring out into the world the ones I think that are really worthy of an audience's attention.
GoodWorldThinkAttentionPlayOut
A lot of times, a bunch of songs have to be written to get to the next really good one.
GoodNextGetSongsReallyTimes
I teach songwriting a lot, and I always tell my students, 'You gotta write the little songs sometimes to get to the next big song in the chute.' You gotta write 'em to get to it. You never know what's going to be a little song or a big song.
SongYouKnowSometimesTeachNever
I think having near-death experiences, they sure made me free.
MeFreeThinkExperiencesSureMade
I have such a good life. It's something I couldn't have imagined in my wildest dreams.
LifeGoodDreamsGood LifeSomething
What I really like is this salted calamari - with jalapenos on top.
TopLikeReally
I was in the orphanage in New Orleans until I was almost a year old. I don't think I ever got held by my mama, so that was completely and utterly traumatic. I think it was trauma from the first breath, and I think I've spent my whole life trying to heal from that trauma. So it shaped my brain.
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