115 Quotes by Mary Gauthier

I think, because of the kind of writer I am, I can't do it halfway. I can't do it without dedicating my entire life to it. I have to give it a hundred percent.

The world doesn't need any more pretty good songs.

War is hell. Sending young people to conflicts that are unwinnable and unresolvable - it puts them in a position where they're going to suffer. And yet their experience is that they're proud of their service, and they should be. Service freely rendered is a noble thing.

I've always been drawn to the hard story, the trauma, because I think art can turn it around.

A song is an emotional lightning bolt - a good one, anyway.

In a lot of ways, songwriting helped save my life.

There's a lot of vulnerability in songs - I'm not talking about pop songs - from people that are in the art of songwriting more than the commercial enterprise of it.

Recovery stabilized me; songwriting gave me a purpose.

By the time I got to songwriting, I had been faced with a lot of troubles as a result of my own collective of trauma. I was someone who instinctively figured out that writing songs about the struggle helps you with the struggle.