Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwrightis an American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer. He has recorded seven albums of original music and numerous tracks on compilations and film soundtracks. He has also written a classical opera and set Shakespeare sonnets to music for a theater piece by Robert Wilson...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionOpera Singer
Date of Birth22 July 1973
CityRhinebeck, NY
CountryCanada
track musical usurpers
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.
cutting teeth closets
I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.
daughter real world
What I love about my daughter is that she is going to definitely allow me and force me to change my life and slow down and make it more about the real things in the world.
diapers drink
A diaper is as inspiring as a drink.
house earth opera
I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.
kabbalah hitting fairy-tale
I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.
longing decrepit reverence
I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.
demise way plot
I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.
heart knack lines
In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.
aunt my-boyfriend care
Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic.
careers america meat
I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your mark and gotten your Rolling Stone piece and your Grammy nomination, that they're on to the next piece of meat, and they don't necessarily like to follow the twistsand turns of an artistic career. Throwing an opera at them is something they have to notice. There's nothing subtle about it.
wall biblical thinking
But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall
artist young hedonistic
The more hedonistic you were, the better...I very much subscribed to that as a young artist.
tired america needs
I really need to know I may just never see you again, or might as well You took advantage of a world that loved you well I'm going to a town that has already been burnt down I'm so tired of you, America.