People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light,… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I'm in… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts.… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I'm always sort of looking for projects that I can sort of put out into the world, into the public sphere, and… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
As people buy less and less records, it's become more and more important for me to spend more and more on them… — 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
No, I wouldn't direct a movie, no. I couldn't. I don't have the patience for it, I don't have the people skills.… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Cynicism and defensiveness are two things constantly levelled at me. Look, I've got time for people, I'm good mannered. I usually find… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint,… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The way people reacted to me in dressing rooms and so on was incredibly aggressive. They know every record and they seem… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
You know, an idea is just an idea. There seems to... the kind of epiphanies that you have, like the little sudden… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Rock music is the province of the young, and it should be made by young people. I'm not running around in a… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The last thing I ever wanted to get involved with is Hollywood. The way it works is that people get an idea… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
What I want people to recognize is that we have to keep working together and take charge because we all have the… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
It's always a risky business inviting somebody on stage. You never know what they're going to do. I try to avoid letting… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
When you're making a film, there are so many people involved that you get opinions and notes from people and you don't… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The secret to longevity in the music business is to change, and to be able to change. [...] An actor has to… — 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
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