Latest Martha Wainwright Quotes from Interviews

• Divorce is not an issue. That's people's lives! So, I don't like to be too puffed up about the importance of family. It's going to be tough and it changes as time goes by. I don't know. I just don't think it should be made an issue.

  Martha Wainwright

  Divorce, Thinking, Tough

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's better to embrace your roots than it is to fight it, because then you're just fighting something that you're not going to win. We're like a band of gypsies, and it makes sense.

  Martha Wainwright

  Fighting, Winning, Gypsy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When I listen to my songs, they seem like pieces of music or art, like a painting that you look at. The reality is that, yes, when I wrote the songs upstairs or wherever, I was writing very specifically about my life or a specific subject matter that's very personal. I've never shied away from that. The vocals and the performance that come after the record, I don't think of that as confessional, but the core of the music is completely. It makes sense that people would see that as being the main thing. I guess not everyone is able to speak so candidly.

  Martha Wainwright

  Song, Art, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Martha Wainwright

  Song, Writing, Seems

  Source: thequietus.com

• 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.

  Martha Wainwright

  Motherhood, Track, Trying

  Source: thequietus.com