They say people who die young never get old, that’s obviously true, so why should we say you are 41 today? You are 34 forever.
I may have learnt a little bit more about you and the way you died this year, I may learn more in the future, although I’m not sure. But what else could I say after all this writing?
Two things are regularly said about you and your music: a lot of people are still touched by your music, and this will continue for a long time, and many people see you as a depressed songwriter who wrote sad songs,… now, all this sounds like a cliché, and I don’t want that!
Should I leave you the last words? Because you had a thing with words, you just like them a lot:
“The thing is, I’m not really sadder than anyone else. I’m happy at times. I’m not always sad and I’m not always happy. After all, most people aren’t incredibly happy all the time. People have their own stuff that they constantly try and make better, and so I’m just trying to be a better person… The purpose of unhappiness is to point your life in a better direction, where you make things better. Otherwise there would be no point to being unhappy, it would just be a place that is brutal.”
Anyway happy birthday Elliott!