115 Quotes by Mary Gauthier

I'm sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat.

I have got my story. Adoptees rarely get our stories. We only know what we are told. I don't even have my story, really. My mother won't tell me. She won't tell me who my father is. She won't tell me the story of my birth.

I think music is the highest form of healing.

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.

It can take me many months to write one of my own songs.

It is a form of arrogance to assume that other people are even thinking about you.

I got sober at 27 and started writing around 30 and started playing music in public around 32, 33.

In my early years, I couldn't find a community. I couldn't find anybody like me. I felt so isolated. There was nothing but shame and loneliness.

I came to music and knowing a little bit about life, and I came to music knowing a lot about business - and that's a real advantage. By the time I came to music, I had purchased real estate, opened restaurants, and been in the business world, so the music business didn't blindside me.