It’s been a minute since Drake has done an interview. The last time I remember Aubrey doing an interview is when he was smoking hookah in the bathtub giving his best smize. Drake covers the latest issue of W Art magazine and talks Art, Degrassi and acting, Adele and more. Check it out below.
ON ACTING: “I can’t wait to get back into acting. No one ever asks me to do movies, and, although music is my focal point now, I’d love to do a film. That was the life that I lived before, and it would be interesting to live it again.”
ON ART: “The art at Sotheby’s moved me like a song would. I saw music in those paintings. I now try to treat each single as a piece of art. I try to attach the sound that I’m making to an image in my mind.”
ON TORONTO: “Most people I know stay in Toronto. I plan to spend the rest of my life there. The talk, the smell, the sound that comes out of that city is home to me. When I think about the girls I want to get romantic with, it’s a girl from Toronto who knows what I’m talking about when we drive around the city.”
ON HIS PURPOSE: “Realizing that I had a larger purpose was one of the most comforting, peaceful feelings. With music, especially, I’ve come to the
ON SINGING IN THE SHOWER: “I don’t really sing, but I do practice answers to questions in the shower. I talk to myself. I use my shower time to figure out how to respond to the world.”
ON DEALING WITH PRESSURE: “Actually, I love pressure! I’m always thinking, How do I top what I’ve done? How do I make this thing stronger? I ask myself, ‘Why does Adele’s album go diamond, and how do I do that? How do I create art that makes minds stretch further?’ I want to give many, many people many, many moments before I’m gone. That’s truly the art of what I do. It’s the only goal.
