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I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.
Rufus Wainwright
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Rufus Wainwright
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 22
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Rhinebeck (village)
New York
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright
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I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.
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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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All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn early morning is the triumph of good over evil. Absolved by light we decide to go on.
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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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I still believe that love is the most powerful force in the world, even though I am yet to experience it fully.
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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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Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.
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The more hedonistic you were, the better...I very much subscribed to that as a young artist.
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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?
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Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.
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My dad and I have always been somewhat competitive.
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For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.
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Well, my great lesson with that was I went to the same production twice - once completely high and once completely sober - and both times were equally wonderful.
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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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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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And you will believe in love And all that it's supposed to be But just until the fish start to smell And you're struck down by a hammer.
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Growing up, for years and years I had no idea what the plots of operas were, and that's part of what fascinated me - I could make them up and learn bits and pieces of what was going on over time. There's something about it being always a step away that makes it more fun to chase.
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My cheeks explode when I smile. Thats why I have to look so nonplussed.
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The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.
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These are just the rules and regulations Of the birds, and the bees The earth, and the trees, Not to mention the gods, not to mention the gods.
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