Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I have a good face for what I do. "

Rufus Wainwright

Related Quotes:

" Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be. "

Rufus Wainwright

" My mother had a lot of parties when I was a child. There'd always be a moment when she would place me on the upright piano and have me sing Somewhere 'Over the Rainbow'. "

Rufus Wainwright

" My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy and am so fortunate to bathe in her sensibilities. It is tinged with tragedy. I'd much rather she was here in person, but there is still a positive force to come out of her death and that is having the gift of music that she gave. "

Rufus Wainwright

" Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces. "

Rufus Wainwright

" I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations. "

Rufus Wainwright

" Writing an opera and premiering in England, you could say I was going right into the eye of the storm and I came out successfully. A little tattered and bruised, but so what, I made it. "

Rufus Wainwright

" Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic. "

Rufus Wainwright

" Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally. "

Rufus Wainwright

" I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody. "

Rufus Wainwright

" There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful. "

Rufus Wainwright

" I was reared on folk music. "

Rufus Wainwright

" I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings. "

Rufus Wainwright

" I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb. "

Rufus Wainwright

" Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't. "

Rufus Wainwright

" 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. "

Rufus Wainwright

" I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty. "

Rufus Wainwright

" I think we could all be a bit more elitist. "

Rufus Wainwright

" Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits. "

Rufus Wainwright

" To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy. "

Rufus Wainwright

" Life is a game and true love is a trophy. "

Rufus Wainwright

" I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park. "

Rufus Wainwright

" I still believe that love is the most powerful force in the world, even though I am yet to experience it fully. "

Rufus Wainwright

" I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk. "

Rufus Wainwright

" As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond. "

Rufus Wainwright

" When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even if it meant just sitting on my piano bench, staring into space and thinking about it. It's about keeping it regular, like your bowel movements - let's get real: it's your bodily artistic movements! It comes from the same place. "

Rufus Wainwright

" 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. "

Rufus Wainwright

" Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? 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. "

Rufus Wainwright

" I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money! "

Rufus Wainwright

" I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money. "

Rufus Wainwright

" In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And being a father, you're faced with that situation. I know that my father was, with me. I understand why he had to be distant, because to rip yourself away, time after time, is almost more devastating. "

Rufus Wainwright