You always want to break away from your parents, and you always think, 'I'm never going to be like that guy.' What I've discovered is you kind of wind up becoming your parents, which is also a cliche in itself.… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette. — 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
