27 April

Here’s a paradox I think, the more diverse and undefinable a person is, the more individual they are. Individuality and ego are opposite things. Freddie Mercury had an enormous personality, his individuality was like a supernova star, no matter how much people tried to understand the man, the answers only generated new questions. He was completely uninterested in himself, questions about him as a person always drew total blanks - his individuality changed from day to day, he followed his passions and changed who he was, constantly. ‘Freddie’ was not a thing that had real boundaries or could be defined. Kanye West has a huge ego. Everything revolves around him, he is enormously interested in himself. “I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means. I am undoubtedly, you know, Steve of Internet, downtown, fashion, culture. Period. By a long jump." An ego is the opposite of being a real individual. To be individual means to be constantly engaging and changing.