Climate change has always been sort of my main focus. I think also with [what happened in Fukushima, Japan] there's still a lot to think about in terms of what's coming down the pike into the world's oceans, too. Rufus Wainwright More Quotes by Rufus Wainwright More Quotes From Rufus Wainwright I have a lot of advantages: I'm not addicted to horrifying pills. I also have surrounded myself with far more caring and upright individuals. And I wasn't abused as a child, so I'm doing okay! Rufus Wainwright pills caring children When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that. Rufus Wainwright fire writing song You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn't finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn't be like anyone else. Rufus Wainwright degrees artist answers One day you will come to Montauk and see your dad playing the piano And see your other dad wearing glasses Hope that you will want to stay for a while Don't worry I know you'll have to go Rufus Wainwright piano dad glasses I think my imagination and my passions are still firing away, but it's really the body that starts to make up the rules. It's not a major problem; it's just when you get a little older you realize how much your body thanks you when you are good to it. Rufus Wainwright passion thank-you thinking And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine. Rufus Wainwright left-behind blind dream Somebody curse the light And take me far away from myself Rufus Wainwright curse far-away light My cheeks explode when I smile. Thats why I have to look so nonplussed. Rufus Wainwright cheeks i-smile looks In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win! That evil will be banished somehow! Rufus Wainwright evil winning believe I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you. Rufus Wainwright crush mom song I believe in freedom Freedom's apparently all I need But who's ever been free in this world? Who has never had to bleed in this world? Rufus Wainwright believe world needs Guess the world needs both sun And the moon too Sad with what I have except for you. Rufus Wainwright moon world needs I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe. Rufus Wainwright sibelius mahler singing But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction. Rufus Wainwright artist want Madonna created a monster that sucks up souls. Rufus Wainwright soul monsters I don’t really have a relationship with the guitar; it’s like my slutty lover, whereas I’m married to the piano Rufus Wainwright piano guitar lovers I will take my coffee black / never snack / hang with the wolves who are sheepish. Rufus Wainwright snacks black coffee The more hedonistic you were, the better...I very much subscribed to that as a young artist. Rufus Wainwright hedonistic artist young But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall Rufus Wainwright biblical wall thinking I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast. Rufus Wainwright closets teeth cutting
