Rufus Wainwright Quotes

I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

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.

Life is a game and true love is a trophy.

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.

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

Cigarettes and chocolate milk These are just a couple of my cravings Everything it seems I like's a little bit stronger A little bit thicker A little bit harmful for me.

I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.

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

I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.

I think we could all be a bit more elitist.

All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn; early morning is the triumph of good over evil. Absolved by light we decide to go on.

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.

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.

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.

For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.

I really do fear that I'm dying I really do fear that I'm dead I saw it in your eyes what I'm looking for I saw it in your eyes what will make me live.

All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue.

I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.

Let the little fairy in you fly!

I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms.

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

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

I am undefinable. I don't fit into any particular category.

It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.

Musically I'm able to keep going, because it's not about money and it's not about success. It's a challenge.

These are just the rules and regulations Of the birds, and the bees The earth, and the trees, Not to mention the gods, not to mention the gods.

I love being not cool.

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.

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.

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

The operas I listen to aren't in English, and I want to listen to my opera after I'm done with it. I want to have the desire to play it on the stereo. To me, the language is part of the mystery.

After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself.

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

I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.

I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.'

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.

I find so many songwriters today are missing an element ... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around.

I have a good face for what I do.

I have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition.

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

I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.

I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me.

I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do.

I like to try new things.

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

I will take my coffee black / never snack / hang with the wolves who are sheepish.

I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.

Life is the longest death in California.

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