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Yes, I'm a homosexual and I like to shock people with glamour.
— Rufus Wainwright
composer, singer-songwriter, pianist, singer, musician, television actor, film actor, voice actor
1973
Yes, I'm a homosexual and I like to shock people with glamour.
The song is about knowing the end result of every situation you're in, and being able to play it out in your mind and see it before it happens. It's about addiction, really, about knowing how it's all going to end up. In that sense, you're watching a movie of yourself all the time – and then you want out of that movie.
You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.
Life is a game and true love is a trophy.
Life is a game and true love is a trophy.
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.
