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I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it’s quite small and contained.

Benjamin Clementine

Happiness is overrated and money can’t justify it.
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Happiness Justify Money Overrated
If you’ve got great parents, once you grow up and have to live by yourself, you’re going to create some fake self as you get comfortable wherever you are.
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Fake Growing Self Up
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 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
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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Character Fake Parent Protect Self
Poetry itself is music. I’m just lucky that I can convert it into music.
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Convert Itself Lucky Music
When I started singing about my life and what I was going through, I felt more confident. It was my own life, I was being myself, I was telling people what was happening.
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Being Myself People Singing
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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Cities Comfortabel Example Lonely Writing
The real self is who you are when you’re at home, when you’re comfortable, and the false self is what you’re pretending – and the reason you pretend is because you want to create a character for the surroundings you’re within.
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Character Home Real Reason Surround
Confidence came from people. I think I’m very confident in me, as a human being.
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Human People Thinking
Composing was more difficult than writing things down.
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Difficult Down Things Writing
You can’t judge people by their cover.
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Cover Judging People
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 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
I felt like I was homeless anyway, so the change in environment wasn’t that much of a big deal. I felt pretty much the same. After six months of living on the streets [in Camden], I started singing, busking.
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Dead Environment Months Singing Six
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

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