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

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Rufus Wainwright
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 22
Composer
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
Rhinebeck (village)
New York
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright
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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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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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What I love about my daughter is that she is going to definitely allow me and force me to change my life and slow down and make it more about the real things in the world.
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I like to try new things.
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I don't know if it will be my big comeback, but I think it is a statement - that I am a self-sustaining, vibrant, long-term artist, and I'm not going away! And if you don't give me credit, then the musical gods will!
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Guess the world needs both sun And the moon too Sad with what I have except for you.
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I think my mother, more than anyone, knew the importance of inspiration. If it was occurring, you had to use it.
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I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.'
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I have a lot of advantages: I'm not addicted to horrifying pills. I also have surrounded myself with far more caring and upright individuals. And I wasn't abused as a child, so I'm doing okay!
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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 definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust. I've been hanging out a bit with Lou Reed, and he's the complete opposite. He's into technology and is kind of like a toddler, compared to me, who's like an old 19th-century widow or something.
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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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Life is the longest death in California.
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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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But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction.
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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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For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.
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I knew I was gay when I was around 13. There wasn't the internet, there weren't support groups, AIDS was everywhere. I mean, it was really dark.
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I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do.
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It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.
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