I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Polly Jean, I love you. I love the texture of your skin, the taste of your saliva, the softness of your ears.… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for… — 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
The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder,… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in an interventionist God But I know, darling, that you do But if I did I would kneel down… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the… — 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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