Q&A: Buck 65

An interview with CBC Radio 2 host Rich Terfry about his hip hop alter ego
By Dave Morris
· Photograph by Derek Shapton
Online Exclusive · From the October 2009 magazine
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I’ve had the somewhat terrifying realization in the last couple years that [listening to music] is like getting to know someone in a new relationship. It happened when I was talking to someone who was something of a fan of my stuff. As we got to know one another over the course of months, different stories would come up. And the reaction was, “Yeah, I know about that. I remember when you talked about it in such-and-such a song.” I was like, holy smokes, if someone’s really been paying attention, they must know just about everything about me, because it’s all there in the songs. I ask myself — and it’s my biggest struggle — why am I doing this? It’s something I wrestle with constantly. My personal level of angst as a quote-unquote artist probably resembles a needle buried in the red.
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