Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way. — 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
My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a… — 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
When I'm singing 'Deanna,' for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The reason I've gotten into script-writing, which was accidental to begin with, was that I found it was a far more effective… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the… — 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
“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