Rufus Wainwright

I find so many songwriters today are missing an element... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the…

— Rufus Wainwright

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

I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.'

— Rufus Wainwright

I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do.

— Rufus Wainwright

I love being not cool.

— Rufus Wainwright

For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.

— Rufus Wainwright

Putting all of my time In learning to care And a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere Want a locket of…

— Rufus Wainwright

I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it…

— Rufus Wainwright

The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster…

— Rufus Wainwright

The mind has so many pictures Why can't I sleep with my eyes open? The mind has so many memories Can you…

— Rufus Wainwright

New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani,…

— Rufus Wainwright

Yes, I'm a homosexual and I like to shock people with glamour.

— Rufus Wainwright

It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.

— Rufus Wainwright

Let the little fairy in you fly!

— Rufus Wainwright

I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and…

— Rufus Wainwright

Dinner at eight was okay before the toast full of gleams. It was great until those old magazines got us started up…

— Rufus Wainwright

I strive for what you do find in Shakespeare's work - that there is a definite humanity and a definite character behind…

— Rufus Wainwright

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

I don’t really have a relationship with the guitar; it’s like my slutty lover, whereas I’m married to the piano

— Rufus Wainwright

I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the…

— Rufus Wainwright

I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.

— Rufus Wainwright

Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.

— Rufus Wainwright

My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had…

— Rufus Wainwright

There is actually a great book called Prima Donna by Rupert -Christiansen that deconstructs the myth. In fact, many of the women…

— Rufus Wainwright

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