• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

• Previous
• Next

1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

Confidence came from people. I think I’m very confident in me, as a human being.

Benjamin Clementine

Related Topics

HumanPeopleThinking

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

| Next

More Benjamin Clementine Quotes

• 

  I’m not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.

  BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
  ChangedGentrificationProstituteStop
• 

  Poetry itself is music. I’m just lucky that I can convert it into music.

  BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
  ConvertItselfLuckyMusic
• 

  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.

  BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
  CharacterHomeRealReasonSurround
• 

  We’re all competent in different ways, we’ve just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.

  BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
  CompetentDifferentOurselvesWay
• 

  You can’t judge people by their cover.

  BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
  CoverJudgingPeople
• 

  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.

  BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
  CharacterFakeParentProtectSelf
• 

  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.

  BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
  FavoriteMusicianPoetSound
• 

  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.

  BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
  ChristianFamilyRebellious
• 

  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.

  BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
  JudgingMatterRealSelfSomething
• 

  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.

  BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
  ArtistListenWriting
• 

  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.

  BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
  FakeGrowingSelfUp
• 

  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
  GivingRelateShy
• 

  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.

  BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
  CharacterCountryEarthStars
• 

  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.”

  BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
  FactsPeopleRace
• 

  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.

  BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
  DiariesPeopleWriting
• 

  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.

  BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
  FirstsLikePoemTryingWriting