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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
Composer
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Rhinebeck (village)
New York
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright
Sensitive
Sleep
Light
Must
Sealed
Tomb
Hyper
Tombs
Equivalent

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In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And being a father, you're faced with that situation. I know that my father was, with me. I understand why he had to be distant, because to rip yourself away, time after time, is almost more devastating.
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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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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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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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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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For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.
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I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records.
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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'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'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that it reinvents an older era and romanticises it, puts it in this gilded frame.
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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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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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And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine.
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The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh, I can't believe I'm here. I find it vaguely sinister, even.
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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 just think it's better to have ideas. I mean, you can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier, people die for them, people kill for them.
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When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.
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I will take my coffee black / never snack / hang with the wolves who are sheepish.
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A diaper is as inspiring as a drink.
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