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Benjamin Sainte-Clémentine (born 7 December 1988), known professionally as Benjamin Clementine, is an English artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician.

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

Different, Different Ways, Way, Ways

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.

Diaries, People, Quite, Used, Writing

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.

Deprived, Everyone, Fashion, People, Trying

Happiness is overrated and money can't justify it.

Happiness, Justify, Money, Overrated

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

Came, Confidence, Humans, People, Think, Thinking

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.

Choice, Independent, Life, Men, Talk, Writing

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.

Fake, Infancy, Parent, Person, Self, Upbringing

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music.

Convert, I Can, Lucky, Music, Poetry

You can't judge people by their cover.

Cover, Judge, Judging, People

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

Everyone, False, Real, Real Self, Self

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.

Meant, Mistake, Piano, Thinking, Thinks

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.

Being Myself, Life, People, Singing

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.

Comfortable, Fake, Growing Up, Parents, Self

[My music] is opposite to fashion.

Fashion, Music, Music Is, Opposite, Opposites

I was very rebellious, but my family was strict Christians - they would ask us, "What's the shortest verse in the Bible?" and I was the one who always said "John 11:35" straightaway. It stayed with me, the Bible has stayed with me.

Christian, My Family, Rebellious, Straightaway, Verse

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.

Class, Father, Judgmental, Rich, Running

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

Hollywood, Judging, Media, People, Television

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.

Artist, Bob, Dylan, Spoke, Writing

I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it's quite small and contained.

Building, Contained, Fact, Facts, New York, York

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.

Believe, Experience, Hurt, Real, Selves, Use

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