I must confess I got to know you just today. One of my classmates said this website inspired her, and I got interested. We are at an art school in Chelsea. I was reading some questions – coronation, father’s death, tattoo, inspiration and love. I couldn’t help but start crying. I don’t know why. It’s 6 pm in the library. It’s sunny, and I am clearly sober. I wonder why this page makes me so emotional. I think it’s really beautiful what you are doing. It’s such a humane act. I just wanted to tell you this.
RYU @ Issue no. 238I’ve always had an affinity for songwriters who put a lot of craft into their songs like they’re building a wooden table, everything is where it should be. Do you think it is more important to find inspiration or to get to work and write?
JAKE @ Issue no. 156Dear Mr Cave, Do you ever suffer from self-doubt? A girl was falling in love with me, and while she courted me, she shared a part of herself which was you. I had never heard your music before, and it struck me that you were like me – you and I were born within a 100km radius of one another. The young girl who loved me shared with me friendship, forgiveness, and a figure of alien greatness who at one time came from some place around here. I now have two young sons Max and Joey. They enjoy listening to your music, they dance around the living room. Joey is an emotional lightning rod who feels the world more intensely than anyone I have ever met. Little Max cannot speak yet, but he sings, and when he smiles you can see clear through into his soul. One day when they are old enough to really understand, I will tell them that you came from here. I will tell them that they can aspire to be more than a person from a place, and maybe they will not end up like their father.
THOMAS @ Issue no. 143You are one of the funniest writers out there. Would you say humour is an important aspect of your writing? Who has inspired your humour?
CHRIS @ Issue no. 75I’m a young writer. Your music has inspired me deeply in terms of not being afraid of throwing my feelings into my texts, but sometimes it is not easy to describe them in words. I guess you learned to do that through books and poems. I wish you could recommend to me your favourite texts so I can learn from them too.
ALEJANDRÁ @ Issue no. 49During one of the ‘In Conversation’ events, you mentioned that you look to some poets for inspiration in your songwriting. Which ones?
KATIE @ Issue no. 25