Rufus Wainwright: ‘I had a great party trick, but it once blew up in my face’

‘I would love a big bison to snuggle up with, but that also could kill other people for me, on command’ … Rufus Wainwright. Photograph: V Tony Hauser/Frontier Touring

If you could have a sandwich named after you, what would be on it?

I would have a really gross sandwich named after me that nobody would want to eat. The one time I tried to cook – many, many years ago, when I was in college – I decided to make all the things that I love and put them in one dish. And so it was brussels sprouts, macaroni and cheese, merguez sausages, extra blue cheese and broccoli. And it was literally grey. So yeah, it would be something revolting like that, between two pieces of cardboard.