Benjamin Clementine Quotes
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I've learned my lessons, but I'm also still learning them.
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My music isn't mainstream music.
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The minute I stop singing, I'm back to being shy. I'm soft-spoken because I never really talked to people. I didn't learn to do it.
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I know, deep down, that what makes my music what it is are my words. It always starts from me wanting to say something. Once I've run out of things to say, I'll be done.
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I realised that we're all equal - it's all about helping each other.
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I clearly remember my father cutting our jumpers and our sports clothes with scissors - because he didn't want us to wear jogging bottoms and hoodies. He thought that would somehow set the police on us.
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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.
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When I think about Edmonton, Silver Street and Pymmes Park, the old people whose faces are so unhappy, it pushes me to be better. I want to be better to help places like this.
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Where I'm staying, near Lafayette Street, Bowery, and Houston, you get different people with different spirits, and that's what I like.
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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 parents.
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I wanted to find people who were like me, and I did, in the people I was reading.
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I always see my music for its rewards rather than its awards. But I always thought if there was one award I'd want to win, it would be the Mercury.
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I grew up as a man because I was by myself.
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Personally, I wouldn't mind going on stage naked, totally naked.
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I got into a lot of trouble. Maybe that's why my parents didn't really like me and I didn't blend in with my family. I was always the naughty one.
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I accept the fact that angels are great heavenly beings, and I think some people give me the feeling that I'm with an angel.
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I do music to tell people my thoughts and opinions about life, emotions, politics, everything.
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Fame is like icin' on the cake.
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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.
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I didn't blend well with my classmates or my teachers.
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My heroes: Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Nina Simone.
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I never thought I'd say this, but to any child listening, the world is your oyster.
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Paris is very dear to me, and I'll never forget Paris.
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I started writing music in a French way: more focused on lyrics than melody.