American - Musician | March 11, 1962 -
Music had always been a kind of anchor for me. But I didn't write my first song till I was 35.
Mary Gauthier
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In my early years, I couldn't find a community. I couldn't find anybody like me. I felt so isolated. There was nothing but shame and loneliness.
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I've got lots of problems. Being gay isn't one of them.
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I'm sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat.
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I think music is the highest form of healing.
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It can take me many months to write one of my own songs.
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I got sober at 27 and started writing around 30 and started playing music in public around 32, 33.
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I came to music and knowing a little bit about life, and I came to music knowing a lot about business - and that's a real advantage. By the time I came to music, I had purchased real estate, opened restaurants, and been in the business world, so the music business didn't blindside me.
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The belief when your mother gives you away is that there's something deeply wrong. Mothers don't give babies away. There's something wrong with me, something unlovable, something seriously flawed in me. It's a fundamental thing; it's precognitive. You feel it rather than think it. How could you not?
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The job of the artist is to go to the places where most other people are embarrassed to go to. And show it.
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I'm a traveler and a vagabond and an observer, and the songs come through that. And that's just the way it's going to be.
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I think I'll always draw from being a person that doesn't know how to have a normal life, whatever a normal life is.
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