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" 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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" 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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" I have a good face for what I do. "

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" There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable. "

" I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. "

" I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your mark and gotten your Rolling Stone piece and your Grammy nomination, that they're on to the next piece of meat, and they don't necessarily like to follow the twists and turns of an artistic career. "

" 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! "

" I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody. "

" I am ridiculously high-maintenance. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" Life is a game and true love is a trophy. "

" I have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition. "

" I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way. "

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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. "

" I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry. "

" There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie industry. But I have taken a few hits over the years for my sexuality, and for being honest about my life. In the end, it's the music that rules the roost. "

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

Rufus Wainwright

Feel

Always

" 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. "

" I am undefinable. I don't fit into any particular category. "

" 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. "

" I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk. "

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Friends

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally. "

" The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, 'Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh, I can't believe I'm here.' I find it vaguely sinister, even. "

" My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy and am so fortunate to bathe in her sensibilities. It is tinged with tragedy. I'd much rather she was here in person, but there is still a positive force to come out of her death and that is having the gift of music that she gave. "

" That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win. "

" I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered. "

" It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes. "

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