When I was young, my mother [folk singer Kate McGarrigle] brought home this recording of Verdi's Requiem and we listened to it from top to bottom. By the end of it, I was a completely different person. It was literally a requiem mass for my former self. I was about 12 or 13. The Requiem just totally hooked into what I was going through emotionally - discovering my sexuality right at the time when AIDS was devastating my community and dealing with intense parental situations.
I'm very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it's still rock n' roll. - Rufus Wainwright
I'm very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it's still rock n' roll.
- Rufus Wainwright
I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday. - Rufus Wainwright
I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.
For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust. - Rufus Wainwright
For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.
I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output. - Rufus Wainwright
I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.
That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win. - Rufus Wainwright
That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win.
Let the little fairy in you fly! - Rufus Wainwright
Let the little fairy in you fly!
Musically I'm able to keep going, because it's not about money and it's not about success. It's a challenge. - Rufus Wainwright
Musically I'm able to keep going, because it's not about money and it's not about success. It's a challenge.
I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death. - Rufus Wainwright
I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.
Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be. - Rufus Wainwright
Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.
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