I find so many songwriters today are missing an element ... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around.
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 WainwrightWhen I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.
Rufus WainwrightI definitely was always expected and encouraged to be a songwriter from a very young age, ... But really it's because, as a child, I thought I was Judy Garland. And when I started out, I was a little nuts. I thought I was a classic, legendary superstar when only 10 people knew who I was. I feel in some ways that my confidence is misinterpreted as arrogance, which is understandable. But I've also always thought that false modesty is evil.
Rufus Wainwright