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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Rufus Wainwright

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" Looking back, one of the things I love most about my mom was that she never, ever relented. She stuck to her guns right up until the end. She wasn't abusive, but she was never that thrilled that I was gay. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

" I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park. "

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

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

Rufus Wainwright

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale. "

" That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win. "

" 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. "

" I was reared on folk music. "

" New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani, capitalism - and then there was 9/11. I really believe that if I leave, it will suffer! Maybe that's why I love it here, because I feel wanted. "

" I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth. "

" 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. "

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

" You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing. "

" 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'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

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

" 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. "

" After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself. "

" 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

Person

" 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. "

" 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. "