Claire Nicholls

But no, I mean, on the other hand, it turns out that maybe things like poetry, philosophy, fiction, music performance, sport, these are the last vestiges of the human.

And it's very hard to see into the future.

We really don't know what the world is going to be like.

in, say, 25 years.

But there is, you know, as jobs disappear and professions that we thought would be immune will disappear, it may just turn out that all the most human things are the things that we should do.

Like, you know, maybe don't.

do science, maybe like philosophy in the humanities is going to have a kind of a real moment.

And writing will be, you know, I think it'll be niche, but I think that writing novels, writing poetry, writing music, I think those things may be something that is going to last.

Yeah, look, it is.

And I think that for me, it's really the pleasure principle.

I feel very fortunate that I get a lot of pleasure out of music.

almost sort of 95% basically of the process.

I like dreaming it up.

I like writing the first bad draft.

I like improving that draft.

I like working with an editor and sort of fixing it up.

Yeah, I just like the whole thing.

I'm not as fast as I would like to be, but I really enjoy it.

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