255 Quotes by Rufus Wainwright

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.

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

When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father – songs about failed love.

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.

Growing up, for years and years I had no idea what the plots of operas were, and that’s part of what fascinated me – I could make them up and learn bits and pieces of what was going on over time. There’s something about it being always a step away that makes it more fun to chase.

I definitely consider ‘Poses’ – the whole album in fact – to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment when decadence is healthy, ‘Poses’ encapsulates that feeling. It’s a kind of song and a kind of album that I’ll never be able to repeat.

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

I’ll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I’ve done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it takes to get that hook, I will go there and do it.

I’ve written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus on these wonderful, aging divas. But maybe that’s because I think I’m Christina Aguilera.