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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 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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I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry.
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I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb.
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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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There is actually a great book called Prima Donna by Rupert -Christiansen that deconstructs the myth. In fact, many of the women who were prima donnas were feminists and incredible forces for their time.
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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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I was in the forest jumping around daffodils while everyone was high on heroin.
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I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.
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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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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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My dad and I have always been somewhat competitive.
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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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Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic.
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Madonna created a monster that sucks up souls.
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One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.
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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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I like to think of myself as a combination of Sid Vicious and Virgil Thompson
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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'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.
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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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