Latest Benjamin Clementine Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Mistake, Thinking, Piano

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• We're all competent in different ways, we've just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Different, Way, Different Ways

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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 Clementine

  Giving, Shy, Relate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• In fact, I might be confident for the human race because of what the human race has given me. When I was in the street and bars, people always came up to me and said, "Don't stop, keep going."

  Benjamin Clementine

  Race, People, Facts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Benjamin Clementine

  People, Singing, Being Myself

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Confidence came from people. I think I'm very confident in me, as a human being.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Thinking, People, Humans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Book, School, Understanding

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Writing, Writing Things Down, Difficult

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I felt like I was homeless anyway, so the change in environment wasn't that much of a big deal. I felt pretty much the same. After six months of living on the streets [in Camden], I started singing, busking.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Singing, Months, Six

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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 Clementine

  Writing, People, Diaries

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Writing, Lucky, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Literature, Lines, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Writing, Artist, Bob

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• On-stage, I definitely want to use my real self because I'm singing to people who believe in what I'm singing, and I believe in what I'm singing, but they shouldn't be fooled because we all have fake selves and it's in there somewhere. It's not pretending to hurt somebody; it's just something that comes out of me, from my experience.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Hurt, Real, Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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. 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.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Writing, Independent, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Character, Self, Fake

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Growing Up, Self, Fake

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Benjamin Clementine

  New York, Stars, Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Self, Fake, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Real, Self, Judging

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Real, Home, Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that's fine, because their fake self is also part of them.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Real, Self, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• We have the real self and the false self, there's nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Real, Self, Real Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Some people are saying that my music is not for Burberry, it's not for fashion. I know where they're trying to go but if you're saying my music is only for deprived and sad people, then you're not helping me and you're not helping yourself. It's meant to be for everyone.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Fashion, People, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Media, People, Judging

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com