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Rufus Wainwright
Canadian
July 22, 1973
Musician
I am ridiculously high-maintenance.
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I love being not cool.
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I was reared on folk music.
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For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.
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Life is a game and true love is a trophy.
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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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I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.
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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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I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.
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I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.
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I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me.
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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 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'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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My mother had a lot of parties when I was a child. There'd always be a moment when she would place me on the upright piano and have me sing Somewhere 'Over the Rainbow'.
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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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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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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 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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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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