Portrait of the artist: Rufus Wainwright, musician

'What have I sacrificed? Rufus the hausfrau. After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself'What got you started?I really didn't have a choice. Legend has it that when my mother [musician Kate McGarrigle] took me home from the hospital, she had to drop by her studio. There was no crib there, so she put me in a guitar case.What was your big breakthrough?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 pia...

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