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
done records
When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.
mean blue shining
Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit like Sydney, I guess, but the underbelly is a vicious, mean, cruel, awful place.
men thinking careers
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 way.
drama kids school
I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.
writing careers growing
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 about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.
teenager thinking listening
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 records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.
song wine thinking
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.
song writing years
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 to be written about. If I've written a song about the family, they enjoy being mentioned in the songs. Nobody's confronted me and said 'don't write any songs about me.
song home thinking
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 it's going to be like to have someone at home listening to them on a CD. I guess in that way there's a connection between my acting experience and the songwriting and the way the songs are written.
song writing answers
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 that they exacerbate my neurosis.
old-habits eerie next
Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat.
fun water ponds
It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.
kids interesting four
As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they're really interesting, good singers.