255 Quotes by Rufus Wainwright

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.

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.

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.

Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we’re going through today is fine and dandy, but it’s really about being transported and completely swept away by a romantic notion.

That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn’t always win.

And you will believe in love And all that it’s supposed to be But just until the fish start to smell And you’re struck down by a hammer.

I have a three-year-old daughter, which makes me more environmentally conscious. For me, it’s about the future.

I like to think of myself as a combination of Sid Vicious and Virgil Thompson.

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