Giving yourself permission to be creative - Matthew Caws, Nada Surf

Matthew Caws has been playing guitar, singing and writing songs in Nada Surf since 1994. He is one half of Minor Alps with Juliana Hatfield (an earlier guest on this podcast!). He’s from New York City but currently lives in Cambridge, England. Find out more at nadasurf.com . View the deluxe show notes and human-edited transcript at In this episode, we discuss how anxiety gets in the way of songwriting, the anomaly of artists being financially successful, what it’s like listening to the music you made a long time ago, how to keep writing interesting material when you’re happily married and ageing with your audience – when your existence is a mirror to their years gone by. I'm Laura Kidd, an independent music producer, songwriter and visual artist based in Nottingham, UK, making music as Penfriend (formerly She Makes War and Obey Robots). Get your FREE 12-track album + 31-page zine from Get full access to Do Stuff∴Stuff Happens by Penfriend. Music/art/life. at penfriendrocks.substack.com/

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Giving yourself permission to be creative - Matthew Caws, Nada Surf is an episode from Attention Engineer by (formerly Attention Engineer).

This episode is 83:37 long.

This episode was published on Nov 3, 2021.

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