Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?
Rufus WainwrightIn the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win! That evil will be banished somehow!
Rufus WainwrightMy mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it really.
Rufus WainwrightI basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.
Rufus Wainwright