Martha Wainwright Quotes

I tried to find a way out in many ways, but it all caught up with me. Once I realised I could sing and write songs, it was just so much easier to do than anything else!

I always seem to write personal songs; that's always been my go-to thing, to write about what I'm experiencing.

Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.

You know, people always ask me how I describe my music. First of all I tell them that's their job and then that also one day I hope to have things referred to as Martha Wainwright -esque.

I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but ... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians.

I was not that pretty a girl and I was never pursued as a teenager or young woman, so I was used to having no shame and trying to get people to love me.

It can often happen that motherhood can really stop a lot of women in their tracks and I wanted to try and keep working through that as much as I could.

I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be.

I don't like talking about music.

I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.

I think my mother was always worried about me when she was alive.

I play in bars all the time in the States, so I'm kind of used to it. I've just got off the road with the family in Australia, and I enjoyed it but it feels really good to be getting back to doing this stuff.

I have learned to write about things that are personal without objectifying anybody or anything, and that's been an important lesson for me. It's useful not to dump on people while simultaneously expressing a truth or a feeling if it's necessary, without diluting the intensity of the lyric.

I've always been given respect because I'm kind of mannish, and I'm not a great beauty. I've never played the coquette card because I'm no good at it.

You have to be willing to give a lot to be in a relationship with me because a lot of the time it's about me.

I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.