When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINEEven if someone thinks there’s a mistake I’ve made on the piano, to me it’s not a mistake; it’s how it’s meant to be.
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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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Even if someone thinks there’s a mistake I’ve made on the piano, to me it’s not a mistake; it’s how it’s meant to be.
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I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it’s quite small and contained.
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People take things too literal in the Bible and it’s totally wrong.
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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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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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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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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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William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn’t quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.
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You can’t judge people by their cover.
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Poetry itself is music. I’m just lucky that I can convert it into music.
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Confidence came from people. I think I’m very confident in me, as a human being.
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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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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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We’re all competent in different ways, we’ve just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.
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