I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it… — 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… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I write songs in batches and then record them and then can't write again for ages. I try and build one song… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I feel like I've spent the last five years of my life on the road. It hasn't affected my songs but it's… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“The boy will grow older, and over time there will be other songs – not many – ten or maybe twenty in… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very… — 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
I don't like those songs where you have to listen to a story to get into them. I don't want to have… — 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 write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way.… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Everybody tends to overplay live. That's just the nature of playing live. And that can be great, but it can also kill… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
There's that kind of song, "Whoah baby, I love you," which doesn't have a visual element, but a very strong emotional element,… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The editing of a song is largely what makes the song for me and I think that actually if I had started… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
When I start writing songs, and they come easily, I'm always very suspicious. That usually means they're reminding me of something I've… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I've always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure… — 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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