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" I love being not cool. "
Rufus Wainwright
Love
Cool
Being
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings. "
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Me
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" In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that. "
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" To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy. "
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Philosophy
Me
Own
" It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes. "
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Older
Get
Like
" 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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New York
Church
New
" 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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You
Think
Inspiration
" 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. "
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World
Opening
New
" Let the little fairy in you fly! "
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Fairy
You
Little
" I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. "
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Going
Get
Approach
" I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me. "
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My Life
End
Life
" I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well. "
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Out
Bricks
Existence
" You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing. "
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Need
Age
Yourself
" My mother had a lot of parties when I was a child. There'd always be a moment when she would place me on the upright piano and have me sing Somewhere 'Over the Rainbow'. "
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She
Mother
Moment
" 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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Think
Business
Family
" Life is a game and true love is a trophy. "
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Game
Love Is
Love
" I have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition. "
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Gaga
Ounce
Ambition
" I have a good face for what I do. "
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Face
Good
" Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic. "
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Take
Me
Care
" I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records. "
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Think
Job
Sell
" I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park. "
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Save
Park
" I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me. I think my work could fit very nicely into musicals, though. "
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I Am
World
Illusion
" The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale. "
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Pain
" 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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American
Art
" 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
" There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable. "
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Humour
Moments
" 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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Day
Thinking
Myself
" I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty. "
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