All Nick Cave Quotes
- I've watched 'Oprah Winfrey.' And I'm proud. I don't care what anybody says! I don't know whether I've watched it. I've been in the room… Anybody
- If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always… Always Seem
- Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can… Actuality
- Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt… Attempt
- My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need… Flutters
- 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 and not scaring… Anxiety
- The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's… Alive
- The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of… All
- The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in… Apart
- The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these… Came
- There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like… Air
- When I'm singing 'Deanna,' for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular… Brings
- It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love and for comfort… Become God
- Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I'm in Brighton and work.… Brighton
- People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions. Asked
- The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor. Artistic
- Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of different ways people… Anyone
- Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are. Disaster
- 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 places. Break
- I still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene, which I'm quite happy about to be honest. Feel