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Benjamin Clementine

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’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
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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Firsts Like Poem Trying Writing
If I’m being forced to do something I don’t want to do, my real self comes out. But whether or not I’m aware of it, no matter what happens, I’m always going to have a fake self and I’m not going to judge my fake self.
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Judging Matter Real Self Something
Poetry itself is music. I’m just lucky that I can convert it into music.
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Convert Itself Lucky Music
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 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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Anymore Experience Independent Talk Write
Composing was more difficult than writing things down.
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Difficult Down Things Writing
People take things too literal in the Bible and it’s totally wrong.
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Literally People Totally Wrong
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
Confidence came from people. I think I’m very confident in me, as a human being.
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Human People Thinking
When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.
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Judging Media People
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
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
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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Independent Men Writing
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

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