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Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on.
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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I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.
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I really do fear that I'm dying I really do fear that I'm dead I saw it in your eyes what I'm looking for I saw it in your eyes what will make me live.
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Madonna created a monster that sucks up souls.
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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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I was in the forest jumping around daffodils while everyone was high on heroin.
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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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In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And being a father, you're faced with that situation. I know that my father was, with me. I understand why he had to be distant, because to rip yourself away, time after time, is almost more devastating.
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I have a lot of advantages: I'm not addicted to horrifying pills. I also have surrounded myself with far more caring and upright individuals. And I wasn't abused as a child, so I'm doing okay!
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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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All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn early morning is the triumph of good over evil. Absolved by light we decide to go on.
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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 am always writing if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.
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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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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 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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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 have a three-year-old daughter, which makes me more environmentally conscious. For me, it's about the future.
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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 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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