Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
NICK CAVETexting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.
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Inspiration is a word used by people who aren’t really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I’m in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.
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I write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
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The body becomes the carrier for the work. It’s not really about the physical body; it really becomes the apparatus that carries and moves the work. I don’t really consider the body as much; I look at it as a tool.
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I know when I sit with my band members and we’re playing back a song that we’ve done, I know that they’re experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they’re alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.
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The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
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I’m very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It’s the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.
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The songs that I like are the ones that you can’t visualize, that are just cries from the heart – those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.
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I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
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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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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
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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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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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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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Stars have their moments then they die.
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