Benjamin Clementine Quotes

I like black a lot because I can't really see colors - so I wear a lot of dark-colored clothes. You've got to be aware of what you're wearing because you might become that.
I never thought I'd say this, but to any child listening, the world is your oyster.
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 my fears, are buried into my songs. Because I'm singing them.
I realised that we're all equal - it's all about helping each other.
I started writing music in a French way: more focused on lyrics than melody.
I wanted to find people who were like me, and I did, in the people I was reading.
I was on the train; I did play, but I also played in bars, in the streets, at birthday parties for people who discovered me on the train.
I would describe myself as outspoken. Not political. Outspoken about what I want to say. There are things that need to be said... and I think it's my obligation to say them.
I'm a very honest person, and I'm quite emotional for a man. If I want to say something, I'll say it.
I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul and folk. And I was writing and talking about what I've actually experienced, and I don't think that's very common.
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'm literally nowhere yet... When things started going well, this French designer called Ami gave me some shoes and clothes to wear. But when I sat down to play the piano, the very new shoes kept slipping off the pedal. So I took them off, threw them away, and have never worn shoes while playing the piano from then on.
If I weren't musical, then I would have just published a book, you know? But I'm lucky enough to play piano, and so I use piano to convert my poems.
If I win the Mercury Prize, I'll be very honoured. If I don't win it, I won't have lost it. Someone else will have won it. And that will also be good.
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.
In Paris, I was really singing for the sake of living. But eventually people said, 'Keep going; you've got a great voice,' and I started having confidence in my voice all of a sudden. That's when I started creating my own music.
In this life, I've learned to be patient. And I'm still learning... Even now, I wish things would go quicker.
It stayed with me - the Bible has stayed with me. I've grown out of it because, obviously, you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.
It's amazing how people believe you if you use long words.
It's my only freedom, music, and I'm not going to give it up to anyone else.
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