Rufus Wainwright: this week I'm... Reading The Elusive Embrace by Daniel Mendelsohn, which is a group of essays about his life. They cover being gay, Jewish and a father, as well as Greek mythology. For me that's three out of four, and that ain't bad. Visiting The Museum of Modern Art. I've always been a big fan; their retrospective of Marina Abramovic was particularly mind-blowing. moma.org Shopping at Citarella in the Hamptons, which is an upmarket gourmet store. It sells everything for way too much but that's always fun. I love their $8 artichoke. citarella.com Exercising with a skip rope every day for 20 minutes, listening to my own music because it helps me get the timing right. Rufus's new album "Out of the Game," produced by Mark Ronson, is out now This article also appeared in SEVEN magazine, free with The Sunday Telegraph.