I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
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 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
The idea of acting is something that absolutely repulses me. I just can't do it. I'm terrible at it. I get roped… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever… — 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
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
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
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 Image
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