I studied acting and there's certainly an element of performance. I think that the songs are in many ways written to be performed. I think about what it's going to be like to sing them on stage rather than what… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
In a way, the songs are written to be performed. I put them on records, but I'm always thinking about how an audience would react to it. I realized at age 7 that I wanted to be a performer, and… — 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
I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
I have travelled and been pretty much a one man operation for most of my career, and I think it'll continue to be that… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
