I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make any sense to me.
Nick CaveThe artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.
Nick CaveI write songs in batches and then record them and then can't write again for ages. I try and build one song upon another, they may not obviously look inter-related but often one song acts as a springboard into another.
Nick CaveI've had to try and find a way over the years of writing narratively that doesn't really require you to sit down and work out what the story's about. You're brought into a sort of sequence of images that have that emotional resonance, but it's kind of irrelevant what the actual story is. It's taken me maybe 13 albums or something to work that out.
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