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
reality world unreal
It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.
thinking world opera
I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me. I think my work could fit very nicely into musicals, though.
daughter real world
What I love about my daughter is that she is going to definitely allow me and force me to change my life and slow down and make it more about the real things in the world.
night world opera
Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.
trying world jazz
When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.
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?
moon world sun
Guess the world needs both sun And the moon too Sad with what I have except for 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.
careers america meat
I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your mark and gotten your Rolling Stone piece and your Grammy nomination, that they're on to the next piece of meat, and they don't necessarily like to follow the twistsand turns of an artistic career. Throwing an opera at them is something they have to notice. There's nothing subtle about it.