255 Quotes by Rufus Wainwright

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

I’ve been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I’ve been recording snippets on my BlackBerry.

You had to be an over-the-top, demanding, dramatic figure in order to progress as a woman in Europe over the last few hundred years. Now people say, “You’re being such a prima donna,” meaning you’re being hard to deal with or crazy. It’s a bit sexist.

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

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.

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

Certainly in terms of my life – anybody’s life – you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on.

But I don’t even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall.

Once illness strikes, you realize there’s not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there’s no time like the present.