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Nick Cave

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  1. Well, I'd finished. It's the lyric writing that's. Extremely difficult for me. I'm trying to say something with my lyrics. I'm not just trying to collect a bunch of songs together. I'm trying to sort of find the thing that I want to say. And that's quite difficult, record after record.

    2023-12-20 · Intelligence Squared · Nick Cave on Faith, Hope and Carnage · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. It came back mastered today. So that means, I don't know if you know what that means, but you mix the record, you make the record, no, you write the record by your manager to make a record, so you write the record, and then you take it into the studio and record the record, and then you take it to someone and mix the record, and then you send it off someone masters the record and that means it's ready to be Released into the world and it sounds fucking awesome. I mean, I'm just It's been an extraordinarily difficult record to make for some reason. I always sort of, I remember Lou Reed saying something about after a while you understand that the next record will come and things just get easier. I've not found that to be the case. At all, and each record just becomes more difficult to arrive at that.

    2023-12-20 · Intelligence Squared · Nick Cave on Faith, Hope and Carnage · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. Authenticity. I saw that a lot with him. He would carry around a big roll of cash to give to people essentially. A beautiful person and he'll be greatly missed.

    2023-12-20 · Intelligence Squared · Nick Cave on Faith, Hope and Carnage · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. Yeah. He always said something that I didn't quite understand back then when I first met him was a genuine compassion towards people. You know, he was just kind to people, even though he was caustic and sort of had this A rough edge to him. He was enormously generous and kind to ordinary people. Just an extraordinary guy. It's just very sad today.

    2023-12-20 · Intelligence Squared · Nick Cave on Faith, Hope and Carnage · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. Yeah, I mean, there was something, I don't know if people know his reputation precedes him in a way, but Shane was an incredibly kind Sort of generous, pure spirit. Just an extraordinary person, an extremely funny guy. And just in my view at least, The songwriter of his generation. I don't know too much about Irish music. You probably know a lot more about it than I do. But I would say he's sitting up there within the whole historical context as one of the great songwriters. Irish songwriters and greatest

    2023-12-20 · Intelligence Squared · Nick Cave on Faith, Hope and Carnage · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. It's a very sad day today. We knew he was ill for a long time and you prepare for these sorts of things, but it was a shock. A shock and The world's lost, a great artist, I think.

    2023-12-20 · Intelligence Squared · Nick Cave on Faith, Hope and Carnage · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT