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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

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

Hate Use Writing
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.
NICK CAVE

Business People Risky Trying
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
Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
NICK CAVE

Levels Reduction Texting
The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
NICK CAVE

Needles Reality Stuck
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
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
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
NICK CAVE

Beneficial Levels 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
The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
NICK CAVE

Everybody Musically Singing
I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.
NICK CAVE

Balls Thinking Years
I write songs in batches and then record them and then can’t write again for ages. I try and build one song upon another, they may not obviously look inter-related but often one song acts as a springboard into another.
NICK CAVE

Age Country Obvious People Song Writing
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
I’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
NICK CAVE

Bigs Fans Lookout
Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
NICK CAVE

Feels Matter Want
I have things that I’m interested in, and I’m not really interested in writing about anything that I’m not interested in. But it’s important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture.
NICK CAVE

Important Perspective Writing

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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