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" Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic. "
Rufus Wainwright
Take
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Care
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" Let the little fairy in you fly! "
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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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" 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. "
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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 like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe. "
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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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" 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. "
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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. "
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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 have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition. "
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" 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. "
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" I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast. "
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Young
" 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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Song
Feeling
" It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes. "
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" Writing an opera and premiering in England, you could say I was going right into the eye of the storm and I came out successfully. A little tattered and bruised, but so what, I made it. "
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" Life is a game and true love is a trophy. "
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Love Is
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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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Sometimes
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Feel
" I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output. "
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" I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb. "
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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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" My cheeks explode when I smile. That's why I have to look so nonplussed. "
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" For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't. "
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" I am ridiculously high-maintenance. "
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" I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way. "
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