Rufus Wainwright

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.

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I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.

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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? I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.

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I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.

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I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

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My love of maple syrup. I've been known to knock back a can over a couple days: A swig here, a swig there, and next thing you know it's gone. It's a habit I have to stave off. I don't want to lose all my teeth.

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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 very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.

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I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb.

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I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.

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Life is a game and true love is a trophy.

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I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your mark and gotten your Rolling Stone piece and your Grammy nomination, that they're on to the next piece of meat, and they don't necessarily like to follow the twists and turns of an artistic career.

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It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.

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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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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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To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy.

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I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me. I think my work could fit very nicely into musicals, though.

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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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Quotes by Rufus Wainwright