It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes. — 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
Guess the world needs both sun And the moon too Sad with what I have except for you. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I really need to know I may just never see you again, or might as well You took advantage of a world… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Climate change has always been sort of my main focus. I think also with [what happened in Fukushima, Japan] there's still a… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
What I love about my daughter is that she is going to definitely allow me and force me to change my life… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win!… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom Freedom's apparently all I need But who's ever been free in this world? Who has never had to… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Wouldn't Ponochio II be a great musical, now that he has to face the real world and get a wife... job. Now… — 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
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
You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not… — 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
I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and… — 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
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