Poetry itself is music. I’m just lucky that I can convert it into music.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINEI know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it’s quite small and contained.
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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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You can’t judge people by their cover.
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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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Composing was more difficult than writing things down.
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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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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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We’re all competent in different ways, we’ve just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.
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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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I felt like I was homeless anyway, so the change in environment wasn’t that much of a big deal. I felt pretty much the same. After six months of living on the streets [in Camden], I started singing, busking.
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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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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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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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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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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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[My music] is opposite to fashion.
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