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I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry.
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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It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.
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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 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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You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.
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I've developed a bit of a fascination with John Denver. I always thought he was kind of tacky and somewhat revolting and had a kind of simplistic weirdness, but on second listen, he actually did have an incredible voice, and the blatant naiveté of his work is straight-edge, in a way.
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I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb.
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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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The mind has so many pictures Why can't I sleep with my eyes open? The mind has so many memories Can you remember what it looks like when I cry? I'm trying, trying to tell you All that I can in a sweet and velvet tongue But no words ever could sell you Sell you on me after all that I have done.
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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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Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic.
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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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The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person.
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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 sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.
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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'm 33 and in my Jesus year, and I want it all right now. I want a perfect body. I want to have a perfect love affair. I want every member of my family to be healthy and happy. And I want the world to save itself and for America to realize that it has to give up its idea of being an empire. Wait until I hit 40 then it'll all come crumbling dow
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Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces.
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My greatest experiences in the theatre and the most religious experiences in my life - of which going to the opera is one for me - have been with the Romantic composers' repertoire: it's Wagner, it's Strauss, Verdi, Puccini. That era gets me every time.
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My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it really.
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As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.
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