American - Musician | March 11, 1962 -
I'm a big fan of Lou Reed, and I do a lot of talking through songs. It's more effective with my vocal limitations and also more powerful to slightly sing sometimes. It depends on the emotion, but I'm never going to try to compete with great singers.
Mary Gauthier
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When I became a songwriter, it was out of some sort of desperation. I needed to create something. I had to latch on to something, and the guitar was what I grabbed.
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When I finally got sober, I moved towards what I might have been if I hadn't been destroying myself when I was young.
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A lot of time, if you spend too much time in Nashville, songwriters get caught up in charts and numbers and the music business politics.
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