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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
Composer
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Rhinebeck (village)
New York
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright
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Blackberry
Blackberries
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I find so many songwriters today are missing an element ... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around.
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Let the little fairy in you fly!
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I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money!
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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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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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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 came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.
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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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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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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'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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I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.
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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 don't want to hold you and feel so helpless I don't want to smell you and lose my senses And smile in slow motion With eyes in love.
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I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.
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Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's really about being transported and completely swept away by a romantic notion.
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I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.
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I have a three-year-old daughter, which makes me more environmentally conscious. For me, it's about the future.
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Guess the world needs both sun And the moon too Sad with what I have except for you.
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All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue.
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