I'm very blessed, mainly because even though my family is mostly in show business, it's really centered around music. My parents were very successful in many ways, but they weren't necessarily top of the charts. We were never wealthy because of music. We always had to work and we always had to struggle a little bit, and I think at the end of the day that's been very good for me, because I have a sense of it being very ephemeral.
Rufus WainwrightI want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.
Rufus WainwrightI bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk.
Rufus WainwrightI think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.
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