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.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINEWhen 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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When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.
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You can’t judge people by their cover.
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Composing was more difficult than writing things down.
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[My music] is opposite to fashion.
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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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People take things too literal in the Bible and it’s totally wrong.
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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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I’m not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.
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Happiness is overrated and money can’t justify it.
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Poetry itself is music. I’m just lucky that I can convert it into music.
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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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Obviously you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.
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I was independent. There was no one there to talk to; I didn’t even want to talk to anyone. I started to write about what I was experiencing, and I had no choice, so I was never scared.
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That’s how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.
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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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