Rufus Wainwright Quotes

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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…
• The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.
• Let the little fairy in you fly!
• There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.
• Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.
• Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.
• After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself.
• As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.
• For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.
• I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.
• 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…
• I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.
• I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.'
• I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.
• I find so many songwriters today are missing an element... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around.
• I have a good face for what I do.
• I have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition.
• I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.
• 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.
• I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me.

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