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I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records.
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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I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb.
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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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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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Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.
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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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