The chronic shyness and mental illness that made it hard for Drake to compete with 1970s showmen like Elton John and David Bowie didn’t matter when his songs were being pulled one by one out of the ether and played late at night in a dorm room.

— Jennie Rothenberg Grtiz, How the Internet (and Volkswagen) Made a Dead Folksinger Into a Star, The Atlantic, 2015 (via)