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
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
The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, 'Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh,… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that… — 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
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
New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani,… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
