Rufus Wainwright Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• I 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

  Children, Nuts, Evil

• 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.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Believe, Age, Alive

• I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Thinking, Age, Young

  Interview with Miranda Siegel, www.vulture.com. February 19, 2013.

• You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Age, Needs, Rewards

• When I was signed, at the age of 23...the fact that I presented myself as an out gay man was very, very unusual.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Gay, Men, Age

  "Rufus Wainwright: 'A Diaper Is As Inspiring As a Drink'". Interview with Julia Lurie, www.motherjones.com. March 24, 2014.

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