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" 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. "
Rufus Wainwright
Feel
Death
Mother
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" 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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" I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Let the little fairy in you fly! "
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" I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk. "
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" 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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" I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records. "
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" 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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" Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there's no time like the present. "
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" 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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Mother
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" 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. "
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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. "
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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 like to try new things. "
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" You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing. "
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" 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 think we could all be a bit more elitist. "
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" In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And being a father, you're faced with that situation. I know that my father was, with me. I understand why he had to be distant, because to rip yourself away, time after time, is almost more devastating. "
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" I'm very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it's still rock n' roll. "
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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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