Loudon Wainwright III Quotes

Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much.

I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. So we'll have to ask them.

I've done bits where I've perhaps talked about my kids annoying me and you hope that the audience realise that you do actually love your children. You can still be a good parent and be frustrated by your kids.

Because you give birth, because you impregnate someone, that does not automatically give you that title of mother or father. You earn the title.

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

Father of four. I like the sound of that.

Parenthood is a very, very intense experience.

I would define the new aspects of fatherhood like this: It is 75 percent amazing and 25 percent demoralizing. I think any new parent can understand exactly what I'm talking about.

Fatherhood is a process you can't really express.

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

Being a parent is the hardest job ever in life.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father, and trying to be a good father, I already have my work cut out for me.

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.