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The Cure to a Creative Block is Making Something You’ll Never Show Anyone Else
By Herbert Lui — 2016
So making songs now that I know aren’t going to be heard by anybody else, it is an interesting thing. Because I think you have to do that now as an artist. I really do. —Donald Glover, Grantland interview
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