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" 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. "
Rufus Wainwright
New York
Church
New
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point. "
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" I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb. "
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" I have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition. "
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" I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday. "
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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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" My dad and I have always been somewhat competitive. "
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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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Better
Time
" I think we could all be a bit more elitist. "
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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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" 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
Father
" For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust. "
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iPhone
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" Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally. "
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" 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. "
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Me
Happy
" 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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You
Parents
" I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry. "
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Been
" 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 have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money. "
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" You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing. "
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" My cheeks explode when I smile. That's why I have to look so nonplussed. "
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" There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable. "
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" To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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