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I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.

Benjamin Clementine

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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Christian Family Rebellious
I’m from a middle class family but my father squandered all the money, so I didn’t really run around with rich people. I was very judgmental towards a lot of them.
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Class Father Running
When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.
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Judging Media People
You can’t judge people by their cover.
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Cover Judging People
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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People Real Self Some
[My music] is opposite to fashion.
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Fashion Music Opposites
Confidence came from people. I think I’m very confident in me, as a human being.
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Human People Thinking
Poetry itself is music. I’m just lucky that I can convert it into music.
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Convert Itself Lucky Music
I wasn’t quite used to writing a diary – I didn’t understand why people did it – but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.
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Diaries People Writing
I have met a few people, who are so respected in the fashion industry and all around the world, and are still very humble. People who have it all but act like they only just started, it’s beautiful. This is what I want to be.
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Beautiful Fashion Humble
Happiness is overrated and money can’t justify it.
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Happiness Justify Money Overrated
In fact, I might be confident for the human race because of what the human race has given me. When I was in the street and bars, people always came up to me and said, “Don’t stop, keep going.”
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Facts People Race
I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.
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Lucky Way Writing
When I started writing again, especially when I listened to French music and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, I realized that these lots talked about themselves. The greatest artists, they didn’t sing; they only spoke.
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Artist Listen Writing
I started understanding William Blake and George Orwell more and more. It’s amazing how we go to school when we’re so young, read all of these books, just trying to memorize them. When you start to live, you don’t have to memorize anything.
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Book School Understanding
I’m not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.
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Changed Gentrification Prostitute Stop

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