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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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Look

People

Will

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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. "

" You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn't finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn't be like anyone else. "

" Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I was meant for greater stuff. And look, I've had a baby! And I've written an opera! "

Rufus Wainwright

Destiny

My Life

" I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can. "

Rufus Wainwright

Mundane

Make

" My cheeks explode when I smile. That's why I have to look so nonplussed. "

" When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that. "

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

" Life is a game and true love is a trophy. "

" I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me. "

" 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. "

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

" Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be. "

" For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things out. I've never wanted to do the same things over and over. Some think I've accomplished what I set out to do, and others consider me a dilettante. "

Rufus Wainwright

Curious

Always

" 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. "

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

" I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't. "

" I think we could all be a bit more elitist. "

Rufus Wainwright

Elitist

I Think

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday. "

" I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe. "

Rufus Wainwright

Mahler

Sing

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

" To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy. "

Rufus Wainwright

Philosophy

Own