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I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb.
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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You had to be an over-the-top, demanding, dramatic figure in order to progress as a woman in Europe over the last few hundred years. Now people say, You're being such a prima donna, meaning you're being hard to deal with or crazy. It's a bit sexist.
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I believe in freedom Freedom's apparently all I need But who's ever been free in this world? Who has never had to bleed in this world?
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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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That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win.
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In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win! That evil will be banished somehow!
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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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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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The song is about knowing the end result of every situation you're in, and being able to play it out in your mind and see it before it happens. It's about addiction, really, about knowing how it's all going to end up. In that sense, you're watching a movie of yourself all the time - and then you want out of that movie.
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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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My dad and I have always been somewhat competitive.
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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've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.
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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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And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine.
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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 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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I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.
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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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Writing an opera and premiering in England, you could say I was going right into the eye of the storm and I came out successfully. A little tattered and bruised, but so what, I made it.
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Let the little fairy in you fly!
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