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And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me

Nick Cave

I’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
NICK CAVE

Bigs Fans Lookout
Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.
NICK CAVE

Musician Running Writing
Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
NICK CAVE

Australian Country Day Happened People
Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
NICK CAVE

Children Grieving Past
The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
NICK CAVE

Body Cells Musical
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.
NICK CAVE

Book Ideas Writing
I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren’t much of a muse, but then I weren’t much of a poet
NICK CAVE

Heart Looks Muse Poet
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

Believe Christian Religious
I don’t really care who collects my work, black, white, red, yellow. You have to also be consciously aware of, what does this mean in your home? And how are you supporting this work and the message behind the work?
NICK CAVE

Home Mean Yellow
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
No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
NICK CAVE

Sadness Sorrow Wonder
If I’m hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, ‘Hey, why don’t you go downstairs and start a new novel?’
NICK CAVE

Hey Kids Wife
I’m an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American – blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
NICK CAVE

Country Grew Influence
The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
NICK CAVE

Needles Reality Stuck
Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists – second rate Christianity.
NICK CAVE

Christianity Communist Jesus
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 important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.
NICK CAVE

Breathing Challenges Musical

And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me

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