Nick Cave's Love Song Lecture

I found a copy of Nick Cave's lecture on the Love Song online, and copied it onto my site. It's a truly extraordinary piece of writing. I've linked to that copy above, and include an excerpt below:

How beautiful the notion that we create our own personal catastrophes and that it is the creative forces within us that are instrumental in doing this. We each have a need to create and sorrow is a creative act. The love song is a sad song, it is the sound of sorrow itself. We all experience within us what the Portugese call Suadade, which translates as an inexplicable sense of longing, an unnamed and enigmatic yearning of the soul and it is this feeling that lives in the realms of imagination and inspiration and is the breeding ground for the sad song, for the Love song is the light of God, deep down, blasting through our wounds.

I agree with his idea about inexplicable yearning inside us all, but I'm not convinced (as he is) that the love song is the ultimate genre for its expression, even though I'm a huge fan of his love songs.

But do read the transcript, it's a high quality use of anyone's time.