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I’m not religious, and I’m not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.

Nick Cave

I write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
NICK CAVE

Hate Use Writing
I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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Country Invisible People Suspects
Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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Betrayal Film Violence
Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
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Particular Projects Writing
It’s very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it’s done by the seat of your pants. There’s a kind of nervy element about it.
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Adventure Element Important
That’s what we [outsiders] feel America is really about – the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right – when it’s probably something quite different.
NICK CAVE

Christian Country Different People
I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you’re reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.
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Comedy Moments Reaching
The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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Everybody Musically Singing
The problem with books, now that I’ve written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
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Book Ideas Writing
I love rock-n-roll. I think it’s an exciting art form. It’s revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.
NICK CAVE

Art Changed Rocks Thinking
I’m unable to really write the kind of song that doesn’t have a visual element, which most songs don’t.
NICK CAVE

Elements Song Writing
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 experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they’re alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.
NICK CAVE

Different Eye Song
The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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Needles Reality Stuck
Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
NICK CAVE

Australian Country Day Happened People
My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I’m quite like that in real life as well.
NICK CAVE

Real Records World
I’m very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It’s the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.
NICK CAVE

Art Beautiful Inspire

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