Loudon Wainwright III

I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I…

— Loudon Wainwright III

My feeling is that, and I've been writing about my family over the years, although it might make them feel uncomfortable, people…

— Loudon Wainwright III

I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s…

— Loudon Wainwright III

When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which…

— Loudon Wainwright III

As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they're really interesting, good singers.

— Loudon Wainwright III

You just do the best you can. It doesn't necessarily mean that you have to get worse the more you do it.…

— Loudon Wainwright III

When you have a song on the radio your career and your life changes maybe for the better and maybe for the…

— Loudon Wainwright III

Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it.

— Loudon Wainwright III

Right away, I knew I didn't want to have that look of other guys with long hair and bell-bottom pants, because everybody…

— Loudon Wainwright III

I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could…

— Loudon Wainwright III

My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tuned in to country…

— Loudon Wainwright III

Why kill good people just to get a bad man?

— Loudon Wainwright III

I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started…

— Loudon Wainwright III

I have travelled and been pretty much a one man operation for most of my career, and I think it'll continue to…

— Loudon Wainwright III

When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of…

— Loudon Wainwright III

Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an…

— Loudon Wainwright III

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

When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.

— Loudon Wainwright III

Who was that fatman buried in your place? Just another imitator, plastic surgeons did his face.

— Loudon Wainwright III

I'm writing about what's happening to me now. I mean, I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have…

— Loudon Wainwright III

My father writings stuff was always his personal stuff, like about the day we had to put our dog down, or finding…

— Loudon Wainwright III

I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.

— Loudon Wainwright III

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

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

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