My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it really.
Rufus WainwrightThe pop world is popular, and it's about what the people want and connecting to the masses, whereas opera, although it was once popular - and I still believe it can be - it has become very elitist and intellectual, but that certainly doesn't sell tickets. It's a struggle, but I've always embraced struggle and thrived off of it, so it's the way my life needs to go.
Rufus WainwrightI 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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