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" I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry. "
Rufus Wainwright
Rap
Hand
Been
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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. "
Rufus Wainwright
Older
Frame
Fan
" 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. "
Rufus Wainwright
Finish
Artist
Music
" 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. "
Rufus Wainwright
You
Ignore
Feedback
" I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast. "
Rufus Wainwright
Out
Closet
Young
" I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered. "
Rufus Wainwright
Had
Think
Age
" That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win. "
Rufus Wainwright
Love
Love Is
Powerful
" 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. "
Rufus Wainwright
Know
Amazing
Experience
" 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. "
Rufus Wainwright
Life
Mother
Work
" Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits. "
Rufus Wainwright
Over
Budget
I Am
" 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. "
Rufus Wainwright
Spark
Believe
Fog
" 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. "
Rufus Wainwright
Focus
Wonderful
Think
" Life is a game and true love is a trophy. "
Rufus Wainwright
Game
Love Is
Love
" I would love to have a number one hit. The truth is if I don't get one, I'll be fine, but at the same time, the truth is that I'm dying for one, as well. "
Rufus Wainwright
Truth
Time
Love
" 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. "
Rufus Wainwright
Out
Bricks
Existence
" It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes. "
Rufus Wainwright
Older
Get
Like
" After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself. "
Rufus Wainwright
Myself
Cleaning
Years
" The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale. "
Rufus Wainwright
Love
Moment
Pain
" 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. "
Rufus Wainwright
People
Time
Relationship
" I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk. "
Rufus Wainwright
Famous
Friends
Go
" I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it takes to get that hook, I will go there and do it. "
Rufus Wainwright
Art
Go
Person
" I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output. "
Rufus Wainwright
I Am
Need
Stop
" I find so many songwriters today are missing an element... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around. "
Rufus Wainwright
Today
Missing
Find
" Let the little fairy in you fly! "
Rufus Wainwright
Fairy
You
Little
" I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me. "
Rufus Wainwright
My Life
End
Life
" I love being not cool. "
Rufus Wainwright
Love
Cool
Being
" 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. "
Rufus Wainwright
Healthy
Song
Feeling
" 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
" I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records. "
Rufus Wainwright
Think
Job
Sell
" 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! "
Rufus Wainwright
Kind
Attention
Theatre
" The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person. "
Rufus Wainwright
She
Artist
Direction