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

Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

- Benjamin Clementine

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

- Benjamin Clementine

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

- Benjamin Clementine

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

- 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.

- 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.

- Benjamin Clementine

[My music] is opposite to fashion.

- Benjamin Clementine