Rufus Wainwright Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And being a father, you're faced with that situation. I know that my father was, with me. I understand why he had to be distant, because to rip yourself away, time after time, is almost more devastating.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Father, Rip, Cutting

  "Rufus Wainwright: 'I've tried to be vegetarian but I keep falling off the horse and, like, eating it'" by Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2012.

• My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it really.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Mother, Father, Gay

  "Crystal clear". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2005.

• When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Mother, Song, Father

• I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Father, Player, Guitar

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