What Nick Cave thinks about humility

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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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1. 29 Jun 2026

   Our readingThe past is not something a maker should discard but something to draw on, and approaching it with humility is what lets the work come out distinct.

   Their wordsOver time, that fiery intensity ebbed away, and I realised that the past wasn’t something to discard but to respect.

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