Rufus Wainwright Quotes

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

I remember when I did 'Live SheckWes, Die SheckWes,' and when I did 'Mo Bamba,' I one-taked those because it came from my heart.

Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.

I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.

I wrote 'Love Foolish,' and when I heard the music for the first time, it felt like this was a song that Twice hadn't done before. I thought the song and music had a very mature tone, so I wrote the lyrics to match. I was inspired by the music directly.

When I'm writing, I'm focusing more on just the basic melody and the lyrics.

A lot of my songs are inspired by a muse of some sort, whether she's real or not.

I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

It's rare for me to sit in a room with my guitar and feel like I can't stop playing, because it just sounds so good.

As songwriters, we can go in and write for other artists in a time where you aren't necessarily feeling inspired for yourself.

I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.

When I discovered metaphor and what it meant, I got really excited. That was what really pushed me through into music.

Music is all about creativity.

'Dat $tick' was the first song I tried to be serious on. Then I thought, Wow, what if I really did this seriously? How dope would that be?'

If the songs I'm writing can offer anything to somebody, I'd like to give myself the opportunity to deliver that.

The writing process for us is different with every song. Sometimes they come from our lives, or someone else we know may be going through something that we choose to write about.

I'm a traveler and a vagabond and an observer, and the songs come through that. And that's just the way it's going to be.

I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty - not to be blinded by it.

I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.

I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree.

I don't think music is done by any means. I would love to do it again but it's finding the right thing.

I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.