Loudon Wainwright III Quotes

I was once in a very, very bad car accident. So my drawing arm is full of pins and platinum stuff. Occasionally it hurts. But I found that after the arm was put back together I could draw better than before. I have no idea why.

It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically.

My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life.

Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it girl on the beach, all of those things influence your life, they influence how you write, and the topics you choose to write about.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I've written about.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.

All of my songs are autobiographical.

Seeing your music, how it actually affects people, it just encourages me to stay true to myself and write stories that I relate to and that are real to me, an experience that I've had.

'Masaan' was a life-changing experience.

Sometimes, a writer's life alone can tell a story.

Never underestimate the power of anyone's story... anyone's life.

I know music is just powerful in itself and to have someone say the words that I sat down and wrote changed their life or made them feel a certain way, that hits something in you.

My favourite place was in The Congo. It's where I began to write songs and build myself as an adult.

If something happens to me, you're going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life.

More of my songs are intended to be funny than almost anyone else. Sometimes maybe it cheers me up a bit. I've got a distance from it. Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.

You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

It's always fun to do something that you know ultimately is not about the money, and it's certainly not for the fame - because it's a pain in the ass. But it's really the person in the theater seat you think about when you sit in a room and write.