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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
My Life
End
Life
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" 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. "
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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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" When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even if it meant just sitting on my piano bench, staring into space and thinking about it. It's about keeping it regular, like your bowel movements - let's get real: it's your bodily artistic movements! It comes from the same place. "
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" My cheeks explode when I smile. That's why I have to look so nonplussed. "
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" I have a good face for what I do. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Like
" 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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" I still believe that love is the most powerful force in the world, even though I am yet to experience it fully. "
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Experience
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" I was reared on folk music. "
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Folk Music
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" 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. "
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You
America
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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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Going
" Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't. "
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Everything
Feel
Genius
" 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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Evil
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" I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus on these wonderful, aging divas. But maybe that's because I think I'm Christina Aguilera. "
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" For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust. "
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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
Hundreds
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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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" 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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" It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes. "
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" 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. "
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" 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 think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records. "
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" 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. "
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