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" I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money. "
Rufus Wainwright
Serious
Money
Focus
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" I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment when decadence is healthy, 'Poses' encapsulates that feeling. It's a kind of song and a kind of album that I'll never be able to repeat. "
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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'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do. "
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Going
" I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can. "
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Make
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" I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday. "
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Lead
Everyday
" 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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World
Illusion
" 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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" To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy. "
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Me
Own
" 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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People
Will
" My dad and I have always been somewhat competitive. "
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Been
Competitive
Dad
" I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry. "
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Rap
Hand
Been
" That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win. "
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" Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughter sagas of all time. Certainly, for certain people, and a lot of them, Liza is the bigger star. Liza is the more kind of viable legend, shall we say. Then there's the other camp, where Judy is the one. "
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" 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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" I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered. "
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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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" 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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" I think we could all be a bit more elitist. "
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" 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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Experience
" My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really. "
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Mother
Father
Gay
" 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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" 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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