American - Musician | March 11, 1962 -
Songs, especially lyrics, have always been really important to me.
Mary Gauthier
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I long for real and true connection. It has been the theme of all the songs in my whole life.
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Music and books, I think, were the two things I trusted the most as a child - songs and books.
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I think each veteran's soul has something that it needs to say. I know from my own personal traumas, it's very hard to know what that is. But when I'm watching someone else struggle, it's not as confusing for me, 'cause it's not my struggle, so I can help identify that.
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I've learned our soldiers are so much like everybody else. They're just put into an extreme situation.
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'I Drink' took me two years to write.
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War is hell. Sending young people to conflicts that are unwinnable and unresolvable - it puts them in a position where they're going to suffer. And yet their experience is that they're proud of their service, and they should be. Service freely rendered is a noble thing.
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I think if people really listened to what our families who serve go through, we could have a realistic discussion of what it means to send young people to war.
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I haven't been in the military, but I've known my share of pain. It allows me to sit with someone who's struggling and not be afraid.
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Being in recovery for a lot of years now, I've worked with a lot of people who've gotten sober and sat with a lot of folks who are suffering. Bearing witness is a really underrated thing; it's a big damn deal.
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If somebody in a family is in service, the whole family is in service. I didn't know that. I didn't know our veterans were being deployed seven, eight, nine, 10 times. It's inhumane.
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They send women into combat without being prepared for women in combat. The men resented them being there, and it was just very, very difficult for them, and they had to fight for the respect they were earning. And that's all they want is the respect.
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