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

Benjamin Clementine

Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that’s fine, because their fake self is also part of them.
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People Real Self Some
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.
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Character Home Real Reason Surround
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 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
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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Mistake Piano Thinking
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
People take things too literal in the Bible and it’s totally wrong.
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Literally People Totally Wrong
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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Appreciate Believe Life Live
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
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
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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Favorite Musician Poet Sound
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
Poetry itself is music. I’m just lucky that I can convert it into music.
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Convert Itself Lucky Music
We have the real self and the false self, there’s nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them.
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Everyone False Nothing Real 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

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

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