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" I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment when decadence is healthy, 'Poses' encapsulates that feeling. It's a kind of song and a kind of album that I'll never be able to repeat. "

Rufus Wainwright

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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. "

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

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

Rufus Wainwright

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

" For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust. "

" I find so many songwriters today are missing an element... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around. "

" I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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 was reared on folk music. "

" Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughter sagas of all time. Certainly, for certain people, and a lot of them, Liza is the bigger star. Liza is the more kind of viable legend, shall we say. Then there's the other camp, where Judy is the one. "

" I'm very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it's still rock n' roll. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I love being not cool. "

" After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

" The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person. "