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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. "

Rufus Wainwright

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" I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations. "

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" One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists. "

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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 like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can. "

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

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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 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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