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 c…

- Loudon Wainwright Iii

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.

- Loudon Wainwright Iii

Why kill good people just to get a bad man?

- Loudon Wainwright Iii

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 cert…

- Loudon Wainwright Iii

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

- Loudon Wainwright Iii

It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.

- Loudon Wainwright Iii

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…

- Loudon Wainwright Iii

After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy.

- Loudon Wainwright Iii

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

- Loudon Wainwright Iii