Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwrightis an American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer. He has recorded seven albums of original music and numerous tracks on compilations and film soundtracks. He has also written a classical opera and set Shakespeare sonnets to music for a theater piece by Robert Wilson...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionOpera Singer
Date of Birth22 July 1973
CityRhinebeck, NY
CountryCanada
people glamour shock
Yes, I'm a homosexual and I like to shock people with glamour.
struggle blessed successful
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 in many ways, but they weren't necessarily top of the charts. We were never wealthy because of music. We always had to work and we always had to struggle a little bit, and I think at the end of the day that's been very good for me, because I have a sense of it being very ephemeral.
mowing lawns
Mowing your lawn is against nature.
approach
I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider.
facts montauk
I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk.
defeat glory childbirth
Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on.
maintenance high-maintenance
I am ridiculously high-maintenance.
video habit walks
Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits.
song writing vision
Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?
real character writing
I strive for what you do find in Shakespeare's work - that there is a definite humanity and a definite character behind the writing in the sonnets, and it's very real because it's so deeply personal. I try to aspire to that in what I do.
sweet memories sleep
The mind has so many pictures Why can't I sleep with my eyes open? The mind has so many memories Can you remember what it looks like when I cry? I'm trying, trying to tell you All that I can in a sweet and velvet tongue But no words ever could sell you Sell you on me after all that I have done.
philosophy soul wake-up
Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.
crush mom song
I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.
believe winning evil
In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win! That evil will be banished somehow!