I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
It's possible to get through life without a religious structure, but I don't think that's a very fruitful way to live. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I feel like I've spent the last five years of my life on the road. It hasn't affected my songs but it's… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't,… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
What I'm resistant to is the 'Walk the Line' biopic, where you have this redemptive life done in two hours. It just… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I feel those kinds of ghosts - especially the women in my life - moving out… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
You're collaborating with people you don't even know, when you're making a film. You're collaborating with people you've never seen. So, the… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in an interventionist God But I know, darling, that you do But if I did I would kneel down… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“And I know why our friendship must be kept a secret. Or they will kill You like they killed You in the Bible. And… — Nick Cave Copy Share
I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three… — Nick Cave Copy Share
“Through these days Bunny made increasingly frequent and protracted visits to the bathroom, beating off with a single-minded savagery intense even by Bunny's standards.… — Nick Cave Copy Share
That's what we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something… — Nick Cave Copy Share
“My relationship with my muse is a delicate one at the best of times and I feel that it is my duty to protect… — Nick Cave Copy Share
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books. — Nick Cave Copy Share
Early on I realized when you write a song about someone, it flatters them on some level, and gives you a lot of room… — Nick Cave Copy Share
My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education. — Nick Cave Copy Share
I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed. — Nick Cave Copy Share
To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things… — Nick Cave Copy Share
Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine! — Nick Cave Copy Share
When you've been initiated, you can stand in the world differently. And I think it is up to all of us, we can have… — Nick Cave Copy Share
Polly Jean, I love you. I love the texture of your skin, the taste of your saliva, the softness of your ears. I love… — Nick Cave Copy Share
