115 Quotes by Mary Gauthier

I think Bob Dylan showed us that songs can rise to the level of literature, and he proved it over and over again. That's why they keep trying to get him a Nobel Prize for literature: because there is no Nobel Prize for songwriting.

Songs bring us into connection with each other. When they resonate, when we're in resonance, singing together, we become one for that 3 1/2 or four minutes the song lasts. It takes away that isolated loneliness that modern life is so full of.

I'm openly gay, and I've got a major label record deal in Nashville, and it happened when I was 42 years old. It's not supposed to happen that way.

There's such a thing as a tribe - and family of choice.

Music had always been a kind of anchor for me. But I didn't write my first song till I was 35.

I've got lots of problems. Being gay isn't one of them.

People who have been through trauma, their souls are hurting.

I would make a terrible soldier, because I don't follow orders.

Being in recovery for a lot of years now, I've worked with a lot of people who've gotten sober and sat with a lot of folks who are suffering. Bearing witness is a really underrated thing; it's a big damn deal.