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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'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.
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I like to think of myself as a combination of Sid Vicious and Virgil Thompson
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Madonna created a monster that sucks up souls.
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Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.
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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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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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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 have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do.
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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 strive for what you do find in Shakespeare's work - that there is a definite humanity and a definite character behind the writing in the sonnets, and it's very real because it's so deeply personal. I try to aspire to that in what I do.
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Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on.
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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 really need to know I may just never see you again, or might as well You took advantage of a world that loved you well I'm going to a town that has already been burnt down I'm so tired of you, America.
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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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The more hedonistic you were, the better...I very much subscribed to that as a young artist.
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I really do fear that I'm dying I really do fear that I'm dead I saw it in your eyes what I'm looking for I saw it in your eyes what will make me live.
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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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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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