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When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.

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Nick Cave
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 22
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