People take things too literal in the Bible and it’s totally wrong.
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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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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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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I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it’s quite small and contained.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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 started understanding William Blake and George Orwell more and more. It’s amazing how we go to school when we’re so young, read all of these books, just trying to memorize them. When you start to live, you don’t have to memorize anything.
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I was very rebellious, but my family was strict Christians – they would ask us, “What’s the shortest verse in the Bible?” and I was the one who always said “John 11:35” straightaway. It stayed with me, the Bible has stayed with me.
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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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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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Composing was more difficult than writing things down.
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