Martha Wainwright Quotes

I'm more of an actor than a musician. I've made a little name for myself as an actor, but I also front this band. We have some great players out here, and we've found a little niche with L.A. Hootenanny.

It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine.

I do want to have holidays and see my family and friends.

We'll open for anyone, we are just looking to play.

I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.

Usually I spend my holidays with my family.

My interests are guitars, cars, and vacation. I've been playing guitar all my life. My dad was a professional guitarist, but I'm terrible, which lets me off the hook, so I just play for myself.

We're in entertainment. We're supposed to be making music that communicates with people, but ultimately, it's supposed to be something that people can enjoy. Sometimes you just want to escape for an hour and a half.

The best part of touring has to be playing shows.

I just like to play and I'm always ready to be back onstage.

If I'm not touring I'd just be at home, just driving - I'm kind of at a loss for how that stuff works.

I'm really big on family. I'll love catching up with my cousins. Everyone's in their twenties, so they're all on their grind at the moment, but when we get the time, I'll fly everybody to Amsterdam or Ibiza, and we can just hang for a week, chill, do nothing.

That's one of the cool things about going to local bars: seeing what people are doing and jamming with them. I'm a huge advocate of jamming with others; you learn a lot. So I love to go and do that - even if people wipe the stage up with you.

I haven't actually seen a Lady Gaga tour, but I do think she's very good.

I'm bored, normally, when I travel.

As long as all four of my limbs keep moving and I can still sit up straight and play hard rock and roll for 2 and a half to 3 hours, I'm gonna keep doing it, and I'm gonna do it the way I do it.

Playing live is my natural element. It's too hard to relax in the studio because there are too many options. It's just not as exciting.

Dancing for Flo Rida was a great experience.

I don't want to return to places and sing the same songs a second time.

It's such a big dream of mine to be singing in front of my friends and family in my hometown.

Nothing beats looking out to a sweaty, packed house full of fans.

My dream has always been to be in entertainment.

We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries.

True happiness for me is playing a concert in Blink-182, and then hanging out with my friends and my wife and son, and going out for Mexican food.

I feel that energy up there on stage. The band, the crew and our road family - the look in their eyes - they're so happy to be back doing what we love to do.