
I mean, what's the point, right? There might not be a point to anything – that's real nihilistic and shit – but if you're gonna be playing this video game, you might as well win, right? Fuck, yeah.ĭid you ever imagine that it would be so successful? Presumably you didn't want Channel Orange to be a small release. It's cool to be recognised by your peers. The Grammys are like the championship, and that's cool. Music industry people – and, whether I like it or not, I'm a music industry person – that's the game I came up in. It's like a player in any ball league – NFL, NBA, whatever – you come up in these systems of organisation, and you can hate the league but, at the end of the day, you can't hate the championship.


Were you excited about that? Does this kind of thing matter to you?

I imagine the six Grammy nominations you got recently were nowhere near as exciting. Channel Orange is the Guardian's album of the year.
