Office Magazine | April 2023
Daniel Caesar is Enough
Photo Location: Blind Barber East Village, NYC
While much of Never Enough was created during Caesar's isolation on a remote farm in Canada amid the pandemic, the creative framework came to him while on a boat in the south of France. During that boat trip, he overheard a conversation where someone uttered the two-word phrase. Its meaning was already echoing in his head before he could articulate it. "Never enough," he says, sitting across from me on the velvet slate-gray wrap-around couch in the center of his studio.
He recalls feeling frustrated on that boat, grappling with the idea that something was never enough, but he couldn't pinpoint exactly what. The yearning to understand the meaning of these two words and what "enough" meant to him eventually revealed itself as the central drive of this album. Thus, "never enough" became its title.