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" After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself. "
Rufus Wainwright
Myself
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" I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well. "
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" I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth. "
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" The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale. "
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" I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse. "
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" I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations. "
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" I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me. "
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" For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust. "
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" The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and the next thing you know, I had this huge gilded album. It was kind of an amazing experience because I didn't intend it to be that way. "
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" I was reared on folk music. "
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