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.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINEWe have the real self and the false self, there’s nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them.
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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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I’m not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.
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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 you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.
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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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[My music] is opposite to fashion.
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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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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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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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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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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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Confidence came from people. I think I’m very confident in me, as a human being.
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I was independent. There was no one there to talk to; I didn’t even want to talk to anyone. I started to write about what I was experiencing, and I had no choice, so I was never scared.
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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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I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it’s quite small and contained.
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