Florence Given

But guess what?

That's not the job of a fucking artist.

The job of an artist is not to be a pillar of moral purity where you consider every single angle of something and...

No, we're here to hear from you.

Okay.

I used to do that all the time.

I used to pander with my voice and I got a bit sick of it because if you're creating some art that isn't actually about joy or rather expressing something that you want to express, but it's about avoiding

Punishment, right?

How many of us create art through the lens of trying to avoid punishment, avoid being cancelled?

You're just wearing this filter across yourself and then we don't get your fucking art.

We get some bullshit that sounds like something some other person could have written or created.

We need more authentic voices.

We need more voices...

from people that are a little bit fucking annoying.

We need to hear from more people who are just them because you came here into this body, into this vessel to express you, not a bit of this and a bit of that and a bit of that and some sort of safe, watered, tampered down, diluted, bullshit, mediocre fucking version of yourself that you are not.

So your deepest fear that you have, I'm secretly annoying.

I'm secretly too much.

I'm secretly...

I'm vulgar.

Lean into it.