I'm very blessed, mainly because even though my family is mostly in show business, it's really centered around music. My parents were… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show… — 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
I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I think my mother, more than anyone, knew the importance of inspiration. If it was occurring, you had to use it. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie industry. But I have taken a few… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I think my imagination and my passions are still firing away, but it's really the body that starts to make up the… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I made the decision to take on board the critical feedback. Reviews are something you can easily ignore as a performer or… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus on these wonderful, aging divas. But maybe… — 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've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
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 like to think of myself as a combination of Sid Vicious and Virgil Thompson — 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
I don't know if it will be my big comeback, but I think it is a statement - that I am a… — 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
Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want… — 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
