From a new Nick Cave interview:
"I’m a lyric writer,” he says. “That’s the thing that I’m naturally predisposed to doing. But writing lyrics that are true, or at least authentic, is hard. It’s tough. It’s always difficult. Increasingly difficult, I would say. The words make greater demands on you as you get older. You understand that if you write a substandard lyric, or an inauthentic lyric, it’s not going to go away. It’s gonna come after you and haunt you every day of your life. So there is a lot of anxiety there. Your work becomes the measure of you. Not your past achievements, but the last song you have written. It shouldn’t be that way, but it is. And the pressure gets greater the more songs you write. But the actual music, though, all the recording and rehearsing and playing the music live, this is all just joyful."
I wonder if Bono feels the same way.
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