American - Musician | March 11, 1962 -
I try not to eat cakes, but sugar screams my name.
Mary Gauthier
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What matters is what happens in the soul of an artist when you're playing.
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If I write for beauty and truth, the songs will find their way to me. Then, it's the songs that speak to the audience, and they can become part of the tribe that is into what I do.
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When I first got sober, I hadn't read anything for six or seven years. I didn't have even that much focus.
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I feel as though I came to music with something to say. It wasn't like that when I was younger. I didn't have the ability to articulate what it was I wanted to say.
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I always knew I was going to make a record called 'The Foundling.' Since I picked up a guitar, I knew it.
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The world doesn't need any more pretty good songs.
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A song is an emotional lightning bolt - a good one, anyway.
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There's a lot of vulnerability in songs - I'm not talking about pop songs - from people that are in the art of songwriting more than the commercial enterprise of it.
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By the time I got to songwriting, I had been faced with a lot of troubles as a result of my own collective of trauma. I was someone who instinctively figured out that writing songs about the struggle helps you with the struggle.
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Once I got my life sorted and started to get healthy, then I was able to focus on writing.
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I think, because of the kind of writer I am, I can't do it halfway. I can't do it without dedicating my entire life to it. I have to give it a hundred percent.
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