I know that people don't listen to music much in the way when they'll put on a CD, sit down, have a… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
I don't claim to be a particularly good father. I'm flawed, let's say. I've certainly been affected by the experience of having… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
I don't write about anything I don't want to write about. I like to think I could write about anything pretty much… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destruction and loss of… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
My feeling is that, and I've been writing about my family over the years, although it might make them feel uncomfortable, people generally like… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they're really interesting, good singers. — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
You just do the best you can. It doesn't necessarily mean that you have to get worse the more you do it. It can… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
When you have a song on the radio your career and your life changes maybe for the better and maybe for the not so… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it. — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
Right away, I knew I didn't want to have that look of other guys with long hair and bell-bottom pants, because everybody else had… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tuned in to country music. I… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
