115 Quotes by Mary Gauthier

Songs, especially lyrics, have always been really important to me.

I long for real and true connection. It has been the theme of all the songs in my whole life.

I've learned our soldiers are so much like everybody else. They're just put into an extreme situation.

Fundamentally, our job as songwriters is to sit down and listen.

'I Drink' took me two years to write.

I think if people really listened to what our families who serve go through, we could have a realistic discussion of what it means to send young people to war.

If somebody in a family is in service, the whole family is in service. I didn't know that. I didn't know our veterans were being deployed seven, eight, nine, 10 times. It's inhumane.

They send women into combat without being prepared for women in combat. The men resented them being there, and it was just very, very difficult for them, and they had to fight for the respect they were earning. And that's all they want is the respect.

As a songwriter, I was always mining my own depths, which were filled with confusion and darkness.