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. Mary Gauthier Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I don’t really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy. Mary Gauthier Read Quote
I’ve come to terms with the fact that I’ll probably be in therapy all of my life. Mary Gauthier Read Quote
Ultimately, what I want is for my songs to outlive me: I want my songs to keep being played even after I’m gone. Mary Gauthier Read Quote
I think we’re very much in a mystery here in this life and that artists try to pierce the mystery with their art. Mary Gauthier Read Quote
I write to make some sense of things that confuse me. The mechanics of my own heart are the most confusing I know about – and don’t know about – and other people’s are a bit confusing, too. Mary Gauthier Read Quote
My experience is that the universal is the personal. If you can get past your navel-gazing into the deepest part of yourself as a writer, you find everyone – we’re all there. Mary Gauthier Read Quote
