Rufus Wainwright Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“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.”

“When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.”

“Writing an opera and premiering in England, you could say I was going right into the eye of the storm and I came out successfully. A little tattered and bruised, but so what, I made it.”

“The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person.”

“I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money!”

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

“Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.”

“I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.”

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

“I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms.”