We have the real self and the false self, there’s nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINEConfidence came from people. I think I’m very confident in me, as a human being.
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I think it is all about creating characters, mixing them up with the stars and the light-years, and coming back to Earth, because we’re from this universe. We’re not just New York or London; we’re stars.
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Confidence came from people. I think I’m very confident in me, as a human being.
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I was very rebellious, but my family was strict Christians – they would ask us, “What’s the shortest verse in the Bible?” and I was the one who always said “John 11:35” straightaway. It stayed with me, the Bible has stayed with me.
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Poetry itself is music. I’m just lucky that I can convert it into music.
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The experience that I had in Paris I could never have ever again in my life. This is when I grew up as a young man.
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People take things too literal in the Bible and it’s totally wrong.
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I loved English literature – if didn’t it would have been hard – but I had to learn it myself. I remembered ways to repeat words, to put more emphasis on certain lines.
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There’s a part in every person that has a fake self. We’ve had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing.
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Composing was more difficult than writing things down.
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Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that’s fine, because their fake self is also part of them.
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When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it’s because you haven’t had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.
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Happiness is overrated and money can’t justify it.
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William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn’t quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.
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I like it when cities are melancholic. When it started snowing for example, I felt very lonely. I felt very comfortable and very relaxed. When that happens, I write. So I’ve been writing, not a lot, but I’m inspired everyday.
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We’re all competent in different ways, we’ve just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.
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