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.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINEWhen 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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I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it’s quite small and contained.
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People take things too literal in the Bible and it’s totally wrong.
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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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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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Confidence came from people. I think I’m very confident in me, as a human being.
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Happiness is overrated and money can’t justify it.
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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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There’s a part in every person that has a fake self. We’ve had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing.
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Even if someone thinks there’s a mistake I’ve made on the piano, to me it’s not a mistake; it’s how it’s meant to be.
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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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I’m not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.
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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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[My music] is opposite to fashion.
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