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" I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output. "

Rufus Wainwright

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" Writing an opera and premiering in England, you could say I was going right into the eye of the storm and I came out successfully. A little tattered and bruised, but so what, I made it. "

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" To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy. "

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" I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.' "

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" I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that it reinvents an older era and romanticises it, puts it in this gilded frame. "

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" When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses. "

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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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" My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road - and we were roped in. "

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" Looking back, one of the things I love most about my mom was that she never, ever relented. She stuck to her guns right up until the end. She wasn't abusive, but she was never that thrilled that I was gay. "

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" Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces. "

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" There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful. "

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" I think we could all be a bit more elitist. "

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" I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do. "

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" I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money. "

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" I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast. "

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" My love of maple syrup. I've been known to knock back a can over a couple days: A swig here, a swig there, and next thing you know it's gone. It's a habit I have to stave off. I don't want to lose all my teeth. "

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" I think my mother, more than anyone, knew the importance of inspiration. If it was occurring, you had to use it. "

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" You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing. "

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" Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't. "

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" I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me. I think my work could fit very nicely into musicals, though. "

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" Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there's no time like the present. "

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" I like to try new things. "

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" Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits. "

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" In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win! That evil will be banished somehow! "

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" I still believe that love is the most powerful force in the world, even though I am yet to experience it fully. "

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" I am ridiculously high-maintenance. "

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" I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty. "

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" Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful. "

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" I would love to have a number one hit. The truth is if I don't get one, I'll be fine, but at the same time, the truth is that I'm dying for one, as well. "

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" Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic. "

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