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" My love of maple syrup. I've been known to knock back a can over a couple days: A swig here, a swig there, and next thing you know it's gone. It's a habit I have to stave off. I don't want to lose all my teeth. "

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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. "

Rufus Wainwright

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

Rufus Wainwright

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

" I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms. "

" Let the little fairy in you fly! "

" 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! "

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

" Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits. "

" I have a good face for what I do. "

Rufus Wainwright

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I still believe that love is the most powerful force in the world, even though I am yet to experience it fully. "

" There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable. "

" 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! "

Rufus Wainwright

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" I like to try new things. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Rufus Wainwright

Belief

Happy

" 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'. "

" I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do. "

" 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. "

" I was reared on folk music. "

" 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. "

" I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death. "