The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics…

Most of the time when I have met artists who have meant a lot to me, the experience has been well above expectation. People…

— Henry Rollins

Outside the world of politics, one person in the world of the arts I would mention as an influence is Nick Cave, another person…

— Nick Cave

I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band…

— Aleksandar Hemon

There are a few artists that I'm really into. I mean, I'm a big Nick Cave fan. And there's a band from Australia called…

— J. Robbins

I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it.

— Norbert Leo Butz

Well I'm not a storyteller, as far as telling stories which relate to experiences in my own life. That's not what I do. I…

— Freedy Johnston

When you sing on stage, the songs are part of the narrative, but in 'Unconditional Love,' it was just singing for singing's sake. It…

— Jonathan Pryce

If you listen to old Jerry Lee Lewis records, he'll always - about nine times out of 10 have the lyrics different than the…

— Chris Isaak

I don't think comic timing is the same as music timing, but I definitely find that I've learned from just writing in general that…

— Steve Martin

It's almost like a theater, where I can play a character in every song, 'cause Kamelot songs are very... There's always a narrative going…

— Alissa White-Gluz

The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer…

— David Bowie

As long as it elicits some kind of thought on the listener's part, that's good. If no one's paying attention to the lyrics it's…

— Russell Mael

Writing songs and lyrics is not that different from doing the 'Times' crossword every morning. They both give you a good mental workout.

— Leslie Bricusse

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and…

— Joanna Newsom

I will say this: I've always sort of had maybe an inflated sense of my ability to sequence songs in a narrative flow.

— Rodney Crowell