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 think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do… — 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
I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop… — 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
The operas I listen to aren't in English, and I want to listen to my opera after I'm done with it. I… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
The song is about knowing the end result of every situation you're in, and being able to play it out in your… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
One day you will come to Montauk and see your dad playing the piano And see your other dad wearing glasses Hope… — 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
Putting all of my time In learning to care And a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere Want a locket of… — 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
But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I was keenly aware that I didn't want to draw on too many typically doomed aspects of the fated singer. Whether it's… — 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
