Loudon Wainwright III
Loudon Wainwright III
Loudon Snowden Wainwright IIIis a Grammy Award–winning American songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor. He is the father of musicians Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche, brother of Sloan Wainwright, and the former husband of the late folksinger Kate McGarrigle. He resides in Canada...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth5 September 1946
CountryUnited States of America
faces plastic buried
Who was that fatman buried in your place? Just another imitator, plastic surgeons did his face.
country believe brooks
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 don't know who Brooks and Dunn are. I like Shania Twain, though!
writing thinking stuff
I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.
song sex block
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 five songs a week; now, I occasionally write a song. But it's an exciting moment when it happens!
mother father parent
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 going to be a big deal.
father ideas different
I hated the idea that I would be like my father. Which is one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to be a writer and wanted to be an actor instead. I wanted to go in a total different direction. But, of course, I ended up being a writer anyway.
song couple writing
I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It's kind of funny and horrible and interesting, so why wouldn't one write about that?
school rock-and-roll rocks
I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.
happiness war concentration
After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy.
hero school boys
Geoff Muldaur was and is one of my musical heroes. When I listen to him sing and play, I can hear the coal mine, the cotton field, and last, but certainly foremost, the boy's boarding school.
grateful years eggs
I was a smoker for years. Occasionally I slip and have a cigarette. Remarkably, my voice has held up. I'm grateful, obviously. But I don't gargle with honey and ground-up bird eggs. I have no secrets.
house-of-cards parent whole
When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.
future doomsday ifs
Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it.
men people politics
Why kill good people just to get a bad man?