What Nick Cave thinks about creativity

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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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2 dated positions, 2019 to 2023, in their own words. Our reading of what Nick Cave has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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20 Nov 2023

Our readingThe feeling of creative control is an illusion: the work has its own destiny and does not belong to the person making it.

Their wordsBut I have come to understand that the feeling of creative control is an illusion, that the songs are predetermined and have their own destiny, that they are not our own.

↗What do I do with these songs?theredhandfiles.com 1st of 2 in this piece
4 years earlier
31 May 2019

Our readingDesire and the making of art draw on the same faculty, and neither dries up with age.

Their wordsWith regards to sexual desire and songwriting, creativity and desire have always been inextricably linked for me.

↗How is the correlation between the sexual and the creative going in old age?theredhandfiles.com