I loved English literature – if didn’t it would have been hard – but I had to learn it myself. I remembered ways to repeat words, to put more emphasis on certain lines.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINESome 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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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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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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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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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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Confidence came from people. I think I’m very confident in me, as a human being.
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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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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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When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.
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I’m not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.
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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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You can’t judge people by their cover.
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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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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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[My music] is opposite to fashion.
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Poetry itself is music. I’m just lucky that I can convert it into music.
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