Rufus Wainwright Quotes

Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.

I like being the odd one out in L.A. Because if you conform, you become something you hate. I love being the odd one out. It's not about 'Look at me! Look at me!' It's about really becoming someone else.

I'm not a conventional guy. I've never been a conventional guy.

I'm the least metrosexual cat you've ever met. I've never had my fingernails or toenails done, and I've cut my own hair longer than other people have cut my hair.

I don't think I constantly have to be on a promotional spree or be seen in the newspapers every day or even be part of social parties and film gangs. I'm having my own set of journey, and I am happy with it because I don't want to be like everybody.

To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act, and I think more and more people should try it, because it's gotten me a pretty cool life.

No one could put my personality in a box. I didn't necessarily fit in.

I'm not a rude boy; I'm my own thing.

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

And so my music, it doesn't matter if I did it 20 years ago or if I did it tomorrow. It doesn't go with trends. My trousers don't get wider and tighter every six months. My music just stays what it is, and that's the way I like it.

I don’t follow fashion and I don’t follow trends, I just follow my instincts...

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

I'm quite comfortable now with being misunderstood. I don't really feel the need either to pander to it or to refute it. Just go on, and do what I've got to do.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

I’VE ALWAYS BEEN A REBEL. I NEVER DO THINGS THE WAY THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE DONE. EITHER I GO IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OR I CREATE A NEW DIRECTION FOR MYSELF, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE RULES ARE OR WHAT SOCIETY SAYS.

Nobody wants to feel they're not a rebel.

I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over -- I just wanna live simple and free.

I've never been interested in being relevant.

Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

It is the free spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy - those individuals who dare to be themselves.

There's no doubt I was a bit of a misfit in the Hollywood of the forties. The race for glamour left me far behind. I didn't really want to keep up. I wanted my stardom without the usual trimmings. Because of this, I was branded a rebel at the very least. But I don't regret that for a minute. My appetite was my own and I simply wouldn't have it any other way.