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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

The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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Needles Reality Stuck
I’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
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Bigs Fans Lookout
Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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Levels Reduction Texting
Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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Australian Country Day Happened People
It’s always a risky business inviting somebody on stage. You never know what they’re going to do. I try to avoid letting people join me onstage because it can be very distracting, and overly theatrical.
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Business People Risky Trying
The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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Body Cells Musical
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.
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Country Grew Influence
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.
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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
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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Flower Moving Sparrow
I’m not religious, and I’m not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
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Believe Christian Religious
Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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Disaster Limitation Wonderful
Stars have their moments then they die.
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Dies Moments Stars
I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.
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Country Duty People Way World
To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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Difficult Hatred Years
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.
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Art Changed Rocks Thinking

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.

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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.

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