Rufus Wainwright Want Quotations

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.

But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction.

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.

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.

I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.