Nick Cave
Australian songwriter and writer, frontman of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Since 2018 he has answered readers' questions in public at The Red Hand Files, where most of what he has said about how songs are made now lives.
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Believed beforeby their own account
Their words, looking backBack then I thought I was remaking the world, tearing down the old and erecting something new in its place.
Nowsaid
Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsIt took me many years to learn that my so-called original ideas were illusions born of naivety, pride, and self-importance.