People take things too literal in the Bible and it’s totally wrong.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINEWhen 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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Poetry itself is music. I’m just lucky that I can convert it into music.
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Happiness is overrated and money can’t justify it.
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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’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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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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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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[My music] is opposite to fashion.
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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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Confidence came from people. I think I’m very confident in me, as a human being.
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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 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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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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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.
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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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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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