Composing was more difficult than writing things down.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINEIn fact, I might be confident for the human race because of what the human race has given me. When I was in the street and bars, people always came up to me and said, “Don’t stop, keep going.”
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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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Happiness is overrated and money can’t justify it.
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You can’t judge people by their cover.
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I’m from a middle class family but my father squandered all the money, so I didn’t really run around with rich people. I was very judgmental towards a lot of them.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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[My music] is opposite to fashion.
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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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Poetry itself is music. I’m just lucky that I can convert it into music.
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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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