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" I am undefinable. I don't fit into any particular category. "
Rufus Wainwright
Particular
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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'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park. "
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" Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you. "
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" I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point. "
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" That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win. "
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" I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society. "
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" I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel. "
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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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" I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can. "
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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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" For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things out. I've never wanted to do the same things over and over. Some think I've accomplished what I set out to do, and others consider me a dilettante. "
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" New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani, capitalism - and then there was 9/11. I really believe that if I leave, it will suffer! Maybe that's why I love it here, because I feel wanted. "
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" I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. "
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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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" My mother had a lot of parties when I was a child. There'd always be a moment when she would place me on the upright piano and have me sing Somewhere 'Over the Rainbow'. "
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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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" I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money! "
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" Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I was meant for greater stuff. And look, I've had a baby! And I've written an opera! "
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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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" You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn't finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn't be like anyone else. "
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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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" I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe. "
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" When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love. "
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" I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death. "
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