It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes. Rufus Wainwright More Quotes by Rufus Wainwright More Quotes From Rufus Wainwright I don't want to hold you and feel so helpless I don't want to smell you and lose my senses And smile in slow motion With eyes in love. Rufus Wainwright smelleyewant And you will believe in love And all that it's supposed to be But just until the fish start to smell And you're struck down by a hammer. Rufus Wainwright hammerssmellbelieve Cigarettes and chocolate milk These are just a couple of my cravings Everything it seems I like's a little bit stronger A little bit thicker A little bit harmful for me. Rufus Wainwright strongerchocolatecouple The pop world is popular, and it's about what the people want and connecting to the masses, whereas opera, although it was once popular - and I still believe it can be - it has become very elitist and intellectual, but that certainly doesn't sell tickets. It's a struggle, but I've always embraced struggle and thrived off of it, so it's the way my life needs to go. Rufus Wainwright strugglebelievepeople Yes, I'm a homosexual and I like to shock people with glamour. Rufus Wainwright glamourshockpeople Mowing your lawn is against nature. Rufus Wainwright mowinglawns Putting all of my time In learning to care And a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere Want a locket of who Made me lose my perfunctory view Of all that is around And of all that I do. Rufus Wainwright bucketscareviews The mind has so many pictures Why can't I sleep with my eyes open? The mind has so many memories Can you remember what it looks like when I cry? I'm trying, trying to tell you All that I can in a sweet and velvet tongue But no words ever could sell you Sell you on me after all that I have done. Rufus Wainwright sleepsweetmemories I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. Rufus Wainwright approach 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. Rufus Wainwright tiredamericaneeds I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me. I think my work could fit very nicely into musicals, though. Rufus Wainwright operaworldthinking I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk. Rufus Wainwright montaukfacts I am ridiculously high-maintenance. Rufus Wainwright high-maintenancemaintenance The song is about knowing the end result of every situation you're in, and being able to play it out in your mind and see it before it happens. It's about addiction, really, about knowing how it's all going to end up. In that sense, you're watching a movie of yourself all the time - and then you want out of that movie. Rufus Wainwright knowingplaysong Wouldn't Ponochio II be a great musical, now that he has to face the real world and get a wife... job. Now he wants to be a toy again. Rufus Wainwright wiferealjobs When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love. Rufus Wainwright mothersongfather I like to think of myself as a combination of Sid Vicious and Virgil Thompson Rufus Wainwright sidsviciousthinking 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. Rufus Wainwright partymotherchildren My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy and am so fortunate to bathe in her sensibilities. It is tinged with tragedy. I'd much rather she was here in person, but there is still a positive force to come out of her death and that is having the gift of music that she gave. Rufus Wainwright tragedymothersong My love of maple syrup. I've been known to knock back a can over a couple days: A swig here, a swig there, and next thing you know it's gone. It's a habit I have to stave off. I don't want to lose all my teeth. Rufus Wainwright syrupteethcouple
