It's possible to get through life without a religious structure, but I don't think that's a very fruitful way to live. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't,… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down… — 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 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 way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of… — 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
It's very intuitive, the way that I approach my work. I only buy something that has a pulse. I may not know… — 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
I've had to try and find a way over the years of writing narratively that doesn't really require you to sit down… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
No, I wouldn't direct a movie, no. I couldn't. I don't have the patience for it, I don't have the people skills.… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I… — 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
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
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
What I'm resistant to is the 'Walk the Line' biopic, where you have this redemptive life done in two hours. It just… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing.… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The last thing I ever wanted to get involved with is Hollywood. The way it works is that people get an idea… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense… — 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
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
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
“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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