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Madonna created a monster that sucks up souls.

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
Monster
Monsters
Souls
Created
Soul
Madonna
Sucks

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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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I like to try new things.
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Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.
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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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I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it takes to get that hook, I will go there and do it.
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But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall
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Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.
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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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A diaper is as inspiring as a drink.
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I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk.
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I made the decision to take on board the critical feedback. Reviews are something you can easily ignore as a performer or writer but I chose to not ignore them here and I think that I benefited. I think I'm stronger for it - and I have a tougher skin as a result.
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I like to think of myself as a combination of Sid Vicious and Virgil Thompson
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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 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'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 am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms.
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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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The operas I listen to aren't in English, and I want to listen to my opera after I'm done with it. I want to have the desire to play it on the stereo. To me, the language is part of the mystery.
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The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.
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Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.
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