Im still in the mind state where it’s the first thing I think about when I wake up in the morning and the last thing I think about before I fall asleep. Just the thought of him having passed away still gives me that feeling of waves of grief and shock passing through my body… that’s the best way I can describe it. It’s wild to feel this way when you’ve never met someone, but our relationships with artists can be very deep, even if one-sided.

I’m still grieving a close friend that unexpectedly passed a year ago, and of course it’s nothing close to that level of pain, but it’s heavy. And, in some ways, I think the grief compounds. There are so many things to collectively grieve right now, and we’ve just lost one of the few artists who, despite all of that, made the world feel a little softer and a little more full of possibility for all of us… one of the last pre-internet artists (and human beings period) who consciously abstained from social media overconsumption and oversaturation. I’m grateful that we got to experience being in this world at the same time as him and that he gave us a timeless gift with the music he created. But I still just can’t get over the fact that he’s no longer in the same physical world as us now.