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I know that New York is big - there are huge buildings - but, in fact, it's quite small and contained... I like it when cities are melancholic. When it started snowing, for example, I felt very lonely. I felt very comfortable and very relaxed. When that happens, I write. So I've been writing, not a lot, but I'm inspired every day.

~Benjamin Clementine

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Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician. All of his poems are all like songs, and that's how I always try to start my thoughts.

~Benjamin Clementine

Topics: Always Been Blake Convert Familiar Favorite He His How Itself Just Like Lucky Music Musician Poems Poet Poetry Quite Said Songs Sounds Start Thoughts Time Try William Would I Can

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At home and in church - which I didn't go to a lot, 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.

~Benjamin Clementine

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Why are there not cabs in Edmonton? Why are there cabs in central London but not here? And if they're going to be here, they should be cheaper. And travelcards, they're expensive.

~Benjamin Clementine

Topics: Central Cheaper Expensive Going Here London Should Why

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If you live in central London, that's probably fine for you, but in places like Edmonton, where you're almost out of sight of London, you've got to pay more and more to get into central London. How does that work?

~Benjamin Clementine

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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.

~Benjamin Clementine

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Where you're from shapes you, but you can actually do whatever you want.

~Benjamin Clementine

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Now I'm standing in front of a thousand people. They're all looking at me, but they're sitting down. They're surrendered, so I have to keep on proving myself to them and giving them all my passion.

~Benjamin Clementine

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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.

~Benjamin Clementine

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When I was a kid, I remember seeing Michael Jackson. I thought he was an alien. You don't grow up to be like Michael Jackson. I'm not saying I'm Michael Jackson, but Mercury Prizes are for aliens, basically. So I was very chuffed that I got nominated, and then I won.

~Benjamin Clementine

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Artist

Born: December 7th, 1988

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