The 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.
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When I’m singing “Deanna,” 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.
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And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me
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Guns are part of the American psyche, aren’t they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It’s intrinsic to the American psyche. It’s never going to change.
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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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I’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
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No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
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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.
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Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.
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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
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I don’t really care who collects my work, black, white, red, yellow. You have to also be consciously aware of, what does this mean in your home? And how are you supporting this work and the message behind the work?
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If I’m hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, ‘Hey, why don’t you go downstairs and start a new novel?’
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The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don’t have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.
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I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don’t like to get my knees dirty. I don’t have a garden.
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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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I’ve always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.
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