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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

Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.
NICK CAVE

Country Ordinary People Sound
I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
NICK CAVE

Children Past Way
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
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
The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
NICK CAVE

Needles Reality Stuck
The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.
NICK CAVE

Air Heart Writing
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
If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
NICK CAVE

Autumn Hard Work Years
And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.
NICK CAVE

Safe Sorrow Tears
Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
NICK CAVE

Feels Matter Want
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 be a terrifying thing.
NICK CAVE

Country Moving Notion Romantic
We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, “Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?”
NICK CAVE

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

Hate Use Writing
I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
NICK CAVE

Always Creation Obligation
I’ve always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.
NICK CAVE

Done Song Writing
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

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