20 Questions With Martha Wainwright

Martha Wainwright has a new album out, Come Home To Mama, and she’s touring the great Canadian North in support of it (Toronto tour date is November 8th at the Great Hall). She was nice enough to answer the 20 Qs just before she heads out.

1. What is your dream of happiness?
Being with my family around a fire outside eating caviar and cream cheese sandwiches.

2. Blonde or Brunette?
I always thought blonde but now i’m thinking brunette.

3. What is the quality you like most in a man?
Hands

4. What do you fear most?
Losing my son in a mall

5. 808s or 909s?

N/A

6. What’s your biggest regret?
Not being nicer to my mother

7. What’s your fav bar or club in the world?
They are all closed now. It would have been the Miami in Montreal.

8. What’s the one thing you can’t live without?
Soup

9. What are the 3 musicians dead or alive you’d like to see perform?
I’d like to see myself perform in 3 stages of life

10. What is your favorite decade in music?
I don’t have one

11. If you had to choose, would you rather go blind or deaf and why?
Blind so i wouldn’t have to read these silly questions

12. How old is too old?
In the grave

13. Where do you see yourself in 15 years?
Not answering these questions

14. Who’s your hero?
My mother

15. What’s your favourite colour?
Nude

16. What song could you live without ever hearing again?
Played It To The Beat by Adele

17. Metallica or Madonna?

N/A

18. What’s your most hated vice?
Saying yes to everything

19. Who is the most tragic figure in history?
Right now me