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I’ve always been shy, but every time that I sing or I perform, when music comes out of me, it is the only thing I can relate to, it’s the only thing I can give.

Benjamin Clementine

Poetry itself is music. I’m just lucky that I can convert it into music.
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Convert Itself Lucky Music
[My music] is opposite to fashion.
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Fashion Music Opposites
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
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
We’re all competent in different ways, we’ve just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.
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Competent Different Ourselves Way
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 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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Character Country Earth Stars
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
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 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
You can’t judge people by their cover.
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Cover Judging People
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
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
When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.
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Judging Media People
Happiness is overrated and money can’t justify it.
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Happiness Justify Money Overrated

I’ve always been shy, but every time that I sing or I perform, when music comes out of me, it is the only thing I can relate to, it’s the only thing I can give.

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