Canadian - Musician | July 22, 1973 -
I 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
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I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.
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I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.
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In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.
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I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.
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I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.
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I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.
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I am ridiculously high-maintenance.
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I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me.
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Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits.
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To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy.
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My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road - and we were roped in.
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