Top 101 Quotes by Rufus Wainwright

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.

My mother had a lot of parties when I was a child. There'd always be a moment when she would place me on the upright piano and have me sing Somewhere 'Over the Rainbow'.

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 have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition.

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

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

My dad and I have always been somewhat competitive.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.