Nick Cave

One of my big fears is drying up, and the more I create, the more I feel myself shrinking beneath the backlog…

— Nick Cave

If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?'

— Nick Cave

To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea…

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I've always worn suits. To me they're a very practical kind of thing to wear. You put one on and don't really…

— Nick Cave

I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely.

— Nick Cave

My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up…

— Nick Cave

I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a…

— Nick Cave

“I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts babe we know it, that you weren't much…

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I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and…

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I don't really care who collects my work, black, white, red, yellow. You have to also be consciously aware of, what does…

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I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and…

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I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the…

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I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the…

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Not my biggest fear, but my biggest problem onstage is over-emphasizing what I do. I'm pushing too hard. You need to engage…

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I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way.…

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“Then he smiles because he knows deep in his bones that his dad has gone and said something really funny probably. He…

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I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.

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Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions.

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The guitar is something you kind of embrace, and the piano is something you kind of - when you play it, you…

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I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

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It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your…

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Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in…

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I won't go into the details, but I ready myself for the day. I am a high-maintenance type of guy.

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Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it

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I have to be able to pull you in. How can I diversify my audiences? What role do I have to play…

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“The condition of the soul can be treated independently of the situation one finds oneself in.”

— Nick Cave

Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine!

— Nick Cave

I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make…

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A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer...

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“I'm a bad motherfucker, don't you know--and I'll crawl over fifty good pussies just to get to one fat boy's asshole," said…

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I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning.

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It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say.

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I've always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of…

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And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside…

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L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

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The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be…

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Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings…

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Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.

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My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a…

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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