American - Musician | March 11, 1962 -
As a songwriter, I was always mining my own depths, which were filled with confusion and darkness.
Mary Gauthier
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I think it's a stereotype that soldiers don't talk, because my experience is that they will talk if they are met with empathy and no judgment.
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I spent my 18th birthday in jail. Charges were dropped as long as I promised never to return to the state of Kansas. My parents took me home to Louisiana. I lasted there a week. Then I ran away.
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I got interviewed by one writer who started with the line, 'Mary Gauthier is a woman who clearly doesn't care how she looks.' I do too. It's just that I'm not very good at it.
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What I was told is that I was born to a mother who was a Catholic, while her boyfriend was not. They couldn't get married unless they put me up for adoption.
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I keep seeing the headline on articles that says something like 'Mary Gauthier Helping Our Veterans.' It's troubling - and it's condescending. Whatever I'm doing as a songwriter to help them tell their stories, they're giving it back to me double, triple, quadruple.
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A lot of songwriters have written about soldiers and war, but very few have written with them.
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Songs bring us into connection with each other. When they resonate, when we're in resonance, singing together, we become one for that 3 1/2 or four minutes the song lasts. It takes away that isolated loneliness that modern life is so full of.
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I did not know that if a member of a family serves, the whole family serves. I did not know that the spouses of our service members carry such a heavy load.
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I did not know that the wounds of war are often invisible.
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I love SongwritingWith:Soldiers.
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I'm openly gay, and I've got a major label record deal in Nashville, and it happened when I was 42 years old. It's not supposed to happen that way.
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