“When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. ...” — Loudon Wainwright III Quote

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego and I'm in show business, so you have to have kind of a healthy, conflagrated ego to a degree. On the other hand, I'm consumed, like a lot of people, with self-doubt and loathing and guilt.”

“Hatred for Obama... has more to do with race than anything else.”

“I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.”

“I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.”

“I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.”

“It's very, very difficult to reinvent yourself when you're 40 or 50, whether you are a taxi driver who now needs to become a web designer, or anything else. It just becomes more difficult and more scary.”

“Football's incomparable to anything else - perhaps only music has that same power to transform society.”