The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in… — 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
Rock music is the province of the young, and it should be made by young people. I'm not running around in a… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end… — 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
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
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
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
When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar,… — 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed. — Nick Cave Copy Share
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
Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine! — Nick Cave Copy Share
When you've been initiated, you can stand in the world differently. And I think it is up to all of us, we can have… — Nick Cave Copy Share
Polly Jean, I love you. I love the texture of your skin, the taste of your saliva, the softness of your ears. I love… — Nick Cave Copy Share
