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" I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point. "

Rufus Wainwright

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

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

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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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" I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park. "

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

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" I love being not cool. "

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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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" I like to try new things. "

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" 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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" It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes. "

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" I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.' "

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" My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really. "

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

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

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" I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth. "

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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 hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb. "

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" As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond. "

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