Mary Gauthier : (13)

" The job of the artist is to go to the places where most other people are embarrassed to go to. And show it. " - Mary Gauthier

" I was in the orphanage in New Orleans until I was almost a year old. I don’t think I ever got held by my mama, so that was completely and utterly traumatic. I think it was trauma from the first breath, and I think I’ve spent my whole life trying to heal from that trauma. So it shaped my brain. " - Mary Gauthier

" I’ve come to terms with the fact that I’ll probably be in therapy all of my life. " - Mary Gauthier

" 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. " - Mary Gauthier

" I knew I had that Cajun heritage, that Acadian heritage; I just feel it. And my gut says Irish on the other side. Irish and French, that’s what I feel. When you’re young, it doesn’t matter so much, but as you get older, I would suspect part of the ageing process is to wonder about your ancestors – who were they? What were their lives like? " - Mary Gauthier

" There’s such a thing as a tribe – and family of choice. " - Mary Gauthier

" A lot of times, a bunch of songs have to be written to get to the next really good one. " - Mary Gauthier

" I don’t play everything I write. I mean, everything I write is not that good. I bring out into the world the ones I think that are really worthy of an audience’s attention. " - Mary Gauthier

" 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. " - Mary Gauthier

" 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. " - Mary Gauthier