Rufus Wainwright says that sometimes when he sings he lets his imagination wander. “Depending on how difficult the piece is, I mean,” he quickly adds. “Sometimes I have to be totally concentrated and ...

For Rufus Wainwright, writing songs is more than a vocation. “It’s almost a bodily function by now,” he said this week. ”I write songs all the time, I go to the piano first thing every morning, and ...

It’s 8.30am in LA’s Laurel Canyon, and in his crimson-walled, book-lined living room, Rufus Wainwright is fitting me into his manic week. He asks if he can turn off the camera to collapse as he ...