I believe we value music so highly partly because when we listen to certain songs we perceive, on some level, the inherent human battle waged within them - the struggle of the songwriter and their triumph over that struggle.
—Nick Cave in his Red Hand Files
After a weekend of pondering how to get back to writing, this note touched me. It’s my own struggle that makes the writing valuable.
And if something—anything—removes that struggle, what remains is meaningless.