At that seminar, I was a bit surprised nobody really asked Neil about emotional process of songwriting? Because I'm a great believer - music can be very therapeutic. But he seems to touch on it here, in this 1986 interview with Beat magazine.
http://www.beat.com.au/music/archive...-crowded-house
Interesting interview about making his latest album - love the story about the mixing machine and its history (once used by The Who, Jeff Buckley, R.E.M. etc)
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