The more hedonistic you were, the better...I very much subscribed to that as a young artist.
Rufus WainwrightI made the decision to take on board the critical feedback. Reviews are something you can easily ignore as a performer or writer but I chose to not ignore them here and I think that I benefited. I think I'm stronger for it - and I have a tougher skin as a result.
Rufus WainwrightI think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.
Rufus WainwrightThe 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