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" I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not. "
Rufus Wainwright
Father
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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 think we could all be a bit more elitist. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it takes to get that hook, I will go there and do it. "
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Go
Person
" 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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Work
" It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes. "
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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 have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money. "
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Earned
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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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Amazing
Experience
" To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy. "
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Philosophy
Me
Own
" 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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Over
Budget
I Am
" I was reared on folk music. "
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Folk
Folk Music
Music
" I am undefinable. I don't fit into any particular category. "
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Particular
I Am
Fit
" I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do. "
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YouTube
Horrible
Going
" 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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Think
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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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Back
Habit
" 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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Right
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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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" 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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Love
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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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Time
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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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" After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself. "
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" I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can. "
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