Free creation: a choice, a necessity

Create without constraints. Without a leash. Without a master or producer breathing down your neck dictating what sells or what pleases. It’s a choice. A guiding principle. A vital necessity.

I have always made it a point of honor to preserve my artistic freedom, no matter the cost. It seemed inconceivable to me to sacrifice the authenticity of a work on the altar of the market or career logic. Creation is not, for me, a strategy. It’s not a promotional tool. Nor is it a stepping stone toward cheap fame. It is a sacred space. A free zone. An inner territory that I refuse to bargain away.

So be it if that means keeping a “day job” on the side. In fact, that’s even better. This choice has given me a luxury many don’t have: the ability to make no compromises. To not engage in artistic “hustling.” To not chase gigs just to meet quotas, maintain a status, or survive in a system that pushes productivity, conformity, and repetition.

I have seen friends, fellow travelers, sincere artists become resigned performers, forced to take gigs just to keep their unemployment benefits. I have seen passion fade under pressure from compromises. I have seen creative urgency suffocated by format constraints, commissions, audience expectations, or funding demands.

This is not a critique of their choices—everyone copes with their realities. It’s a refusal to make the same choice.

Creating freely means accepting to step outside the frame. Sometimes going against the current. To not be recognized by institutional circles. To remain invisible to some. But paradoxically, it’s also the only way for me to stay true to what pushed me to create in the first place: an inner necessity, a singular voice, a need for expression that does not seek to please, but to be true.

I do not want compromises with my music, my lyrics, my images. I don’t want a label to decide the format, a producer to sort songs by commercial potential, or a distributor to tell me what to change to fit playlists.

I prefer the margins over submission. Silence over betraying myself. Authenticity over visibility at any cost.

Creating freely is more than an artistic act: it is an act of resistance.

And as long as I have the strength to say no, I will continue to forge my path, at my own pace, by my own rules.

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