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.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINEThere’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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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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People take things too literal in the Bible and it’s totally wrong.
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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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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 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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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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Happiness is overrated and money can’t justify it.
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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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Poetry itself is music. I’m just lucky that I can convert it into music.
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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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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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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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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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