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.
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 … - Benjamin Clementine
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 …
- Benjamin Clementine
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
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.
Composing was more difficult than writing things down. - Benjamin Clementine
Composing was more difficult than writing things down.
When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people. - Benjamin Clementine
When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.
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
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.
I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it's quite small and contained. - Benjamin Clementine
I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it's quite small and contained.
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
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.
We have the real self and the false self, there's nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them. - Benjamin Clementine
We have the real self and the false self, there's nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them.
[My music] is opposite to fashion. - Benjamin Clementine
[My music] is opposite to fashion.
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