Loudon Wainwright III : (4)

" I don’t write about anything I don’t want to write about. I like to think I could write about anything pretty much that I chose to. I have been asked to write songs about specific things, and I’ve always been able to come up with the goods. " - 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 everybody else was wearing. I had short hair – and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick. " - Loudon Wainwright III

" The big things in the average person’s life are the romances that they have – and then the destruction and loss of them. Parents, siblings, children, the death of parents, family tension… these are monumental things. They struck me as being interesting to write about. I didn’t have a very exotic life, but all this stuff happened to me. " - 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 listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on. " - Loudon Wainwright III