[My music] is opposite to fashion.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINEI 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’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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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 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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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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People take things too literal in the Bible and it’s totally wrong.
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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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When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.
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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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Composing was more difficult than writing things down.
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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 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 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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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 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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