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
When you've been initiated, you can stand in the world differently. And I think it is up to all of us, we… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan. — 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
I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
There are times when I think I can sing it better, but usually I find that I can't. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you… — 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
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 always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The way people reacted to me in dressing rooms and so on was incredibly aggressive. They know every record and they seem… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely. — 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
This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, cleverer, or… — 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
be mindful of the prayers you send pray hard but pray with care for the tears you are crying now are just… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I'm always sort of looking for projects that I can sort of put out into the world, into the public sphere, and… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
It was about the preciousness of that, and how they viewed those birds as art, as something valuable. I didn't care one… — 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
I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for… — 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