Top 101 Quotes by Rufus Wainwright

There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.

You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.

I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do.

I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus on these wonderful, aging divas. But maybe that's because I think I'm Christina Aguilera.

I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.

I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records.

As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.

Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits.

I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.