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.
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’re all competent in different ways, we’ve just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.
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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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Happiness is overrated and money can’t justify it.
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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 I started writing again, especially when I listened to French music and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, I realized that these lots talked about themselves. The greatest artists, they didn’t sing; they only spoke.
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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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Confidence came from people. I think I’m very confident in me, as a human being.
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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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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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[My music] is opposite to fashion.
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People take things too literal in the Bible and it’s totally wrong.
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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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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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You can’t judge people by their cover.
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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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