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

Rufus Wainwright

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

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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 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. "

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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. "

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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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" 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 am ridiculously high-maintenance. "

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

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" The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, 'Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh, I can't believe I'm here.' I find it vaguely sinister, even. "

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" I made the decision to take on board the critical feedback. Reviews are something you can easily ignore as a performer or writer but I chose to not ignore them here and I think that I benefited. I think I'm stronger for it - and I have a tougher skin as a result. "

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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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" 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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" Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic. "

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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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" I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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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 have a good face for what I do. "

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" I am undefinable. I don't fit into any particular category. "

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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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" 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! "

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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 like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can. "

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