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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.

Benjamin Clementine

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
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’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.
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Giving Relate Shy
[My music] is opposite to fashion.
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Fashion Music Opposites
You can’t judge people by their cover.
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Cover Judging People
Poetry itself is music. I’m just lucky that I can convert it into music.
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Convert Itself Lucky Music
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 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
Happiness is overrated and money can’t justify it.
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Happiness Justify Money Overrated
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 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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Book School Understanding
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
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
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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Being Myself People Singing
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

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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