Benjamin Clementine

Personally, I wouldn't mind going on stage naked, totally naked. ”

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'm a very honest person, and I'm quite emotional for a man. If I want to say something, I'll say it. ”

The meaning of love is obviously huge - but for me, it means be nice to people, and people will be nice to you back. Love is a selfless place to be. There is no safer place to be than under the canopy of love. ”

If you have parents who can't show you love, a kid can grow up to look arrogant. Because they need to create a fake self. Or they think they're more powerful than they really are. ”

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. ”

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 do music to tell people my thoughts and opinions about life, emotions, politics, everything. ”

People want a beautiful story. Hopefully my life story is still beautiful, but that metro stuff doesn't make it much more pitiful. ”

Life is life. You have to learn how to forgive people and how to gain forgiveness for yourself. ”