255 Quotes by Rufus Wainwright

I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.

When I was signed, at the age of 23...the fact that I presented myself as an out gay man was very, very unusual.

I was reared on folk music.

I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.

I knew I was gay when I was around 13. There wasn't the internet, there weren't support groups, AIDS was everywhere. I mean, it was really dark.

I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.

I definitely was always expected and encouraged to be a songwriter from a very young age, ... But really it's because, as a child, I thought I was Judy Garland. And when I started out, I was a little nuts. I thought I was a classic, legendary superstar when only 10 people knew who I was. I feel in some ways that my confidence is misinterpreted as arrogance, which is understandable. But I've also always thought that false modesty is evil.