'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Love is not a victory march, its a cold and its a broken hallelujah — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I would love to have a number one hit. The truth is if I don't get one, I'll be fine, but at… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I don't want to hold you and feel so helpless I don't want to smell you and lose my senses And smile… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I still believe that love is the most powerful force in the world, even though I am yet to experience it fully. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Dinner at eight was okay before the toast full of gleams. It was great until those old magazines got us started up… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
And you will believe in love And all that it's supposed to be But just until the fish start to smell And… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare; but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I'm 33 and in my "Jesus year," and I want it all right now. I want a perfect body. I want to… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
My love of maple syrup. I've been known to knock back a can over a couple days: A swig here, a swig… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
My love of classical hit pretty early. I was 13 when it occurred, and that was really the only music I listened… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
It's about how whenever I fall in love, I have these expectations of the experience being a perfect dream, which, of course,… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share
You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share
I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your mark and… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share
I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share
I'm very blessed, mainly because even though my family is mostly in show business, it's really centered around music. My parents were very successful… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share
Growing up, for years and years I had no idea what the plots of operas were, and that's part of what fascinated me -… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share
Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there's no… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share
I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share
And you will believe in love And all that it's supposed to be But just until the fish start to smell And you're struck… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share
It's about how whenever I fall in love, I have these expectations of the experience being a perfect dream, which, of course, ruins it.… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share
Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share
I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share
The song is about knowing the end result of every situation you're in, and being able to play it out in your mind and… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share
