Benjamin Clementine Quotes

I usually sing when I'm by myself.

When I got into music, that was another way to be by myself.

I really just like to sit alone at the piano. I need my me time.

The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.

All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

I was bookish and awkward and wanted a means of expressing the millions of emotions flying around inside me. The piano seemed as good an outlet as any.

That's what my music is good for - clearing out the house and being alone.

You may not enjoy loneliness, because loneliness is sad. But solitude is something else; solitude is what you look forward to when you want to be alone, when you want to be with yourself. So, solitude is something we all need from time to time.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

I am really an introvert, and I need that time alone for a variety of reasons.

I don’t want anyone with me today. Not even him. Some walks you have to take alone.

I'm most connected to myself when I'm alone in a room, moving my hand across a page. That's when I feel most like me.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet.

Behind my door at home, that's when I'm relaxed, and that's when I can allow the emotions or whatever - to feel just what I want to feel - so a lot of people don't know me in that respect. I need a bit of space, a bit of a place to come home to and not have to pretend or perform anymore, where I'm just myself.

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.

I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.