We're all competent in different ways, we've just got to find a way to push ourselves up more. — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
I realised that we're all equal - it's all about helping each other. — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to… — Benjamin Clementine Lucky Copy Share Image
I adopted this feeling that the stage is my home, so just keep my coat on and not wear anything else. — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people. — Benjamin Clementine Hollywood Copy Share Image
I started writing music in a French way: more focused on lyrics than melody. — Benjamin Clementine Lyrics Copy Share Image
I've learned in the little bit of my life so far that you can't fool people. And so I only tell people… — Benjamin Clementine Ambition Copy Share Image
I don't have a flat anywhere. I'm registered in the U.K. for tax purposes, I suppose, and my mail goes to my… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music.… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
My parents always said that I would be a lawyer or pilot or doctor - and I always just thought that's what… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
Now I'm standing in front of a thousand people. They're all looking at me, but they're sitting down. They're surrendered, so I… — Benjamin Clementine Giving Copy Share Image
I felt like I was homeless anyway, so the change in environment wasn't that much of a big deal. I felt pretty… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
I just wanted to eat, to survive. I started singing a cappella in bars. I saved up money to get my first… — Benjamin Clementine Guitar Copy Share Image
Where I'm staying, near Lafayette Street, Bowery, and Houston, you get different people with different spirits, and that's what I like. — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
Music is the reason I started talking to people. When I started singing in bars and trains, I began to learn the… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
I started understanding William Blake and George Orwell more and more. It's amazing how we go to school when we're so young,… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
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… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
Studying music involves a lot of mathematics and a lot of exercises of memory. Or you've got to be able to be… — Benjamin Clementine Beautiful Copy Share Image
Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my favorite poet of all… — Benjamin Clementine Music Copy Share Image
The meaning of love is obviously huge - but for me, it means be nice to people, and people will be nice… — Benjamin Clementine Love Copy Share Image
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… — Benjamin Clementine Character Copy Share Image
Some people are saying that my music is not for Burberry, it's not for fashion. I know where they're trying to go… — Benjamin Clementine Burberry Copy Share Image
I do music to tell people my thoughts and opinions about life, emotions, politics, everything. — Benjamin Clementine Emotions Copy Share Image
The fact is, it wasn't enjoyable being in secondary school. I was a weird kid. — Benjamin Clementine Being Copy Share Image
Where you're from shapes you, but you can actually do whatever you want. — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
Life is life. You have to learn how to forgive people and how to gain forgiveness for yourself. — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
The thing is: I was quite slow when I was younger. I might have been smart - I don't know - but… — Benjamin Clementine People Copy Share Image
I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered… — Benjamin Clementine Books Copy Share Image
I personally don't know what nerves are. I don't get scared when I'm going to play music. But I think something, maybe… — Benjamin Clementine Fear Copy Share Image
I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes… — Benjamin Clementine Diaries Copy Share Image
When I think about Edmonton, Silver Street and Pymmes Park, the old people whose faces are so unhappy, it pushes me to… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
I'm not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped. — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
There's a part in every person that has a fake self. We've had this since infancy due to our parents and our… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
With this sort of career, you need determination. You've got to sacrifice a lot of things: family, friends - not that I… — Benjamin Clementine Career Copy Share Image
I was on the train; I did play, but I also played in bars, in the streets, at birthday parties for people… — Benjamin Clementine Birthday Copy Share Image
I'm from London, and you hardly see stars because of the pollution of light. But in Arizona, there's nothing, so I can… — Benjamin Clementine Light Copy Share Image
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