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
real opera today
Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's really about being transported and completely swept away by a romantic notion.
eye smell want
I don't want to hold you and feel so helpless I don't want to smell you and lose my senses And smile in slow motion With eyes in love.
song play knowing
The song is about knowing the end result of every situation you're in, and being able to play it out in your mind and see it before it happens. It's about addiction, really, about knowing how it's all going to end up. In that sense, you're watching a movie of yourself all the time - and then you want out of that movie.
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.