255 Quotes by Rufus Wainwright

I really need to know I may just never see you again, or might as well You took advantage of a world that loved you well I’m going to a town that has already been burnt down I’m so tired of you, America.

For better or worse, I’ve always been curious musically. Whether it’s opera or Judy Garland or pop, I’ve deliberately sought those things out. I’ve never wanted to do the same things over and over. Some think I’ve accomplished what I set out to do, and others consider me a dilettante.

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

If I had had more of a strategic attitude towards how to reveal my sexuality, and if I’d even played with it a little more, I could have sold a lot more albums and been a lot more famous.

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

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.

I don’t really have a relationship with the guitar; it’s like my slutty lover, whereas I’m married to the piano.

Somebody curse the light And take me far away from myself.

I strive for what you do find in Shakespeare’s work – that there is a definite humanity and a definite character behind the writing in the sonnets, and it’s very real because it’s so deeply personal. I try to aspire to that in what I do.