As a musician, Cave said Lane was incredibly in-demand, but hard to pin down. While fellow Bad Seeds/Birthday Party member Mick Harvey managed to get her into the studio on a handful of occasions, Cave said, “these precious offerings are a fraction of what she was.”
“She was the brains behind The Birthday Party, wrote a bunch of their songs, wrote ‘From Her to Eternity’, ‘The World’s a Girl’, ’Sugar in a Hurricane’ and my favorite Bad Seeds song, ‘Stranger Than Kindness’, but was much more than that,” Cave said. “How could something so luminous carry so much darkness? Drank gin out of a baby’s bottle. Despised the concept of the muse but was everybody’s.”
Cave closed by saying he last spoke with Lane on the phone two months ago, and that “she seemed a million miles away.” He added, “Loved her children more than anything. They were her pride and joy. It was both easy and terrifying to love her. Leaves a big crying space.”