Experiance or Imagination

[Tiggi]

I guess experience would give an artist more depth in understanding what they write about, but on the other hand some subject matter may not lend itself to an artist having experience of it. Off the top of my head, something like space flight would be outside the experience of most writers, so imagination would be needed.

It always ticks me off a bit when very young artists sing about their relationships when they're barely old enough to know what the hell they're talking about...