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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. "
Rufus Wainwright
Life
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" 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! "
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" 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! "
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" To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy. "
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" Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces. "
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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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" 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. "
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" After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself. "
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" Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be. "
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" My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" My dad and I have always been somewhat competitive. "
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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'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb. "
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" I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry. "
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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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" 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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" I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations. "
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