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
art new-york believe
New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani, capitalism - and then there was 9/11. I really believe that if I leave, it will suffer! Maybe that's why I love it here, because I feel wanted.
powerful believe love-is
I still believe that love is the most powerful force in the world, even though I am yet to experience it fully.
hate believe artist
The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, 'Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh, I can't believe I'm here.' I find it vaguely sinister, even.
believe age alive
I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.
believe smell hammers
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 down by a hammer.
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!
believe needs world
I believe in freedom Freedom's apparently all I need But who's ever been free in this world? Who has never had to bleed in this world?
believe cutting nudge-nudge
I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.
dinner eight full great toast until
Dinner at eight was okaybefore the toast full of gleams.It was great until those old magazinesgot us started up again.Actually it was probably me again.
light pact
We made a pact to light up and then we were whisked away,
genius feels
Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.
wall biblical thinking
But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall
dream falling-in-love drinking
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. I imagine cradling my lover's head in my lap in a cab in the middle of the night, and drinking champagne in an elegant hotel suite. But life's rarely like that, and I usually end up walking home by myself in the rain.
boys addiction horrible
I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.