The singer/songwriter was also asked what he misses most when he is out traveling, "My bed. With my boyfriend in it! In a hungover haze I bought a $3,000 mattress. When it arrived I thought I'd been gypped, but it turned out to be the best bed ever. I highly recommend spending a lot of money on a bed; it's very princess and the pea! I don't sleep as well anywhere else."

Wainwright came out as gay while still a teenager. In 1999, he told Rolling Stone that his father recognized his son's homosexuality early on. "We'd drive around in the car, he'd play 'Heart of Glass' and I'd sort of mouth the words, pretend to be Blondie. Just a sign of many other things to come as well." Wainwright later said in another interview that his "mother and father could not even handle me being gay. We never talked about it really."

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