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I like to think of myself as a combination of Sid Vicious and Virgil Thompson
Rufus Wainwright
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Rufus Wainwright
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 22
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Rhinebeck (village)
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Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright
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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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The more hedonistic you were, the better...I very much subscribed to that as a young artist.
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My cheeks explode when I smile. Thats why I have to look so nonplussed.
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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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I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records.
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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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If I had had more of a strategic attitude towards how to reveal my sexuality, and if I'd even played with it a little more, I could have sold a lot more albums and been a lot more famous.
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But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction.
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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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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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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 not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.
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You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn't finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn't be like anyone else.
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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 mother had a lot of parties when I was a child. There'd always be a moment when she would place me on the upright piano and have me sing Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
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Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.
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Life is the longest death in California.
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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 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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Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.
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