The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
Nick CaveWhen Iโm singing โDeanna,โ for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.
Nick CaveI write songs from the point of view I had at a time;I'm not tryingto write songs from a young person's point of view.That only ends in disaster.
Nick Cave