The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything

“I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?”
When you write a song like Forrest Gump, the subject can’t be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort. I don’t fear anybody … ” He laughs, making eye contact at last, his face lighting up, ” … at all. So, to answer your question, yes, I could have easily changed the words. But for what? I just feel like it’s just another time now. I have no interest in contributing to that, especially with my art. It’s the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.

Frank Ocean, in an interview with The Guardian

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dreamingofmercystreet:

Here are the complete seven pages of the marvelously written autobiographical essay “How I Trumped Rudolf Steiner and Overcame the Tribulations of Illiteracy, One Snickers Bar at a Time” by the American singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens.

(Source: the book The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007. Edited by Dave Eggers.  Introduction by Sufjan Stevens.)

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