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" I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park. "
Rufus Wainwright
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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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" Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic. "
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" That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win. "
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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'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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" 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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" I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your mark and gotten your Rolling Stone piece and your Grammy nomination, that they're on to the next piece of meat, and they don't necessarily like to follow the twists and turns of an artistic career. "
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" I am undefinable. I don't fit into any particular category. "
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" 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. "
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" There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie industry. But I have taken a few hits over the years for my sexuality, and for being honest about my life. In the end, it's the music that rules the roost. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be. "
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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 came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do. "
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" Let the little fairy in you fly! "
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" 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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" I was reared on folk music. "
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" I love being not cool. "
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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 we could all be a bit more elitist. "
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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 think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death. "
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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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