🔗 Nick Cave on where he stands

It is both calming and invigorating to hear someone speak and feel your soul nod in agreement. I really needed to read this, and maybe you do too:

I acknowledge that this may be, to you and your friends, an unhelpful admission, but I’m not entirely sure where I stand on anything these days. As the ground shifts and slides beneath us, and the world hardens around its particular views, I become increasingly uncertain and less self-assured. I am neither on the left nor on the right, finding both sides, as they mainly present themselves, indefensible and unrecognisable.

And later:

Perhaps this all amounts to very little, but I suppose, in the end, I value deeds over words.