255 Quotes by Rufus Wainwright

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

I'm very blessed, mainly because even though my family is mostly in show business, it's really centered around music. My parents were very successful in many ways, but they weren't necessarily top of the charts. We were never wealthy because of music. We always had to work and we always had to struggle a little bit, and I think at the end of the day that's been very good for me, because I have a sense of it being very ephemeral.

I was keenly aware that I didn't want to draw on too many typically doomed aspects of the fated singer. Whether it's Judy Garland or Norma Desmond, there is this tragic quality to older women that one can revel in, and you want it to be more three-dimensional than that. So it was important for the character to be strong and resilient, because there are so many victims in opera.

Mowing your lawn is against nature.

I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park.

I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider.

It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.

I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk.

I am undefinable. I don't fit into any particular category.