Nick Cave: Making art is a form of madness, and Kanye West is the greatest artist

On his interaction blog The Red Hand Files, Nick Cave was asked “Do you like Kanye?”. This is his not-so-disambiguous answer: “Making art is a form of madness – we slip deep within our own singular vision and become lost to it. There is no musician on Earth that is as committed to their own derangement as Kanye, and in this respect, at this point in time, he is our greatest artist.”