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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.

I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.

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Life is a game and true love is a trophy.

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I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.

Rufus Wainwright

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'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 think we could all be a bit more elitist.

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I have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition.

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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 have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do.

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I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry.

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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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Let the little fairy in you fly!

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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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'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.

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There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.

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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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My dad and I have always been somewhat competitive.

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I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money!

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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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Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.

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There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

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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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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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Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic.

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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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I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.'

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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 my mother, more than anyone, knew the importance of inspiration. If it was occurring, you had to use it.

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I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that it reinvents an older era and romanticises it, puts it in this gilded frame.

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Looking back, one of the things I love most about my mom was that she never, ever relented. She stuck to her guns right up until the end. She wasn't abusive, but she was never that thrilled that I was gay.

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Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there's no time like the present.

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I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.

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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.

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I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment when decadence is healthy, 'Poses' encapsulates that feeling. It's a kind of song and a kind of album that I'll never be able to repeat.

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New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani, capitalism - and then there was 9/11. I really believe that if I leave, it will suffer! Maybe that's why I love it here, because I feel wanted.

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When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.

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