I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I just think it's better to have ideas. I mean, you can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier, people die… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
The pop world is popular, and it's about what the people want and connecting to the masses, whereas opera, although it was… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
You had to be an over-the-top, demanding, dramatic figure in order to progress as a woman in Europe over the last few… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I definitely was always expected and encouraged to be a songwriter from a very young age, ... But really it's because, as… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughter sagas of all time. Certainly, for certain… — 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
