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" My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really. "
Rufus Wainwright
Mother
Father
Gay
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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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" I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money. "
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" I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park. "
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" 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! "
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" For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things out. I've never wanted to do the same things over and over. Some think I've accomplished what I set out to do, and others consider me a dilettante. "
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" That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win. "
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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'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. "
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" Life is a game and true love is a trophy. "
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" Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't. "
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" I am undefinable. I don't fit into any particular category. "
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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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World
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" I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. "
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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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" I like to try new things. "
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Try
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New
" It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes. "
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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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Serious
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" 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. "
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" I have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition. "
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Gaga
Ounce
Ambition
" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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Mother
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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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Father
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" In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And being a father, you're faced with that situation. I know that my father was, with me. I understand why he had to be distant, because to rip yourself away, time after time, is almost more devastating. "
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Business
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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'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'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody. "
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Say
" I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry. "
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" 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. "
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