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

Benjamin Clementine

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
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.
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Fake Growing Self Up
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
When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.
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Judging Media People
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 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
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
Poetry itself is music. I’m just lucky that I can convert it into music.
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Convert Itself Lucky Music
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.
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Lines Literature Way
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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Firsts Like Poem Trying Writing
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
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
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
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
I like it when cities are melancholic. When it started snowing for example, I felt very lonely. I felt very comfortable and very relaxed. When that happens, I write. So I’ve been writing, not a lot, but I’m inspired everyday.
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Cities Comfortabel Example Lonely Writing
Composing was more difficult than writing things down.
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Difficult Down Things Writing

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