Rufus wainwright

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

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

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

I'm very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it's still rock n' roll.

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.

My dad and I have always been somewhat competitive.

My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really.

I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.

I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.

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