I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
NICK CAVEI’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
NICK CAVEThe 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 CAVEI 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 CAVEI suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
NICK CAVEAnd I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.
NICK CAVEI have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
NICK CAVEInspiration is a word used by people who aren’t really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I’m in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.
NICK CAVEThe 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 CAVETexting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
NICK CAVEEveryone wants to feel that they matter.
NICK CAVEI 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 CAVEWe are still struggling with people who don’t feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.
NICK CAVEStars have their moments then they die.
NICK CAVEThe way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
NICK CAVEI 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 CAVEWriting 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