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A diaper is as inspiring as a drink.

Rufus Wainwright

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Rufus Wainwright
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 22
Composer
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
Rhinebeck (village)
New York
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright
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Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughter sagas of all time. Certainly, for certain people, and a lot of them, Liza is the bigger star. Liza is the more kind of viable legend, shall we say. Then there's the other camp, where Judy is the one.
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My dad and I have always been somewhat competitive.
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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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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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It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.
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Cigarettes and chocolate milk These are just a couple of my cravings Everything it seems I like's a little bit stronger A little bit thicker A little bit harmful for me.
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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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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'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.
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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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I was in the forest jumping around daffodils while everyone was high on heroin.
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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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When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that.
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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 think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records.
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I would love to have a number one hit. The truth is if I don't get one, I'll be fine, but at the same time, the truth is that I'm dying for one, as well.
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I knew I was gay when I was around 13. There wasn't the internet, there weren't support groups, AIDS was everywhere. I mean, it was really dark.
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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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The more hedonistic you were, the better...I very much subscribed to that as a young artist.
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