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The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.

Nick Cave

I write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
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Hate Use Writing
I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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Children Past Way
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.
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Book Ideas Writing
The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
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Song World Writing
I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don’t like to get my knees dirty. I don’t have a garden.
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Dirty Garden Knees
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’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
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Always Creation Obligation
Guns are part of the American psyche, aren’t they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It’s intrinsic to the American psyche. It’s never going to change.
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Damage Gun West
To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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Difficult Hatred Years
My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I’m quite like that in real life as well.
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Real Records World
When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.
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Comforting Lying Night
A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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Gentleman Southern Gentleman Tailors
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?
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Home Mean Yellow
The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.
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Artistic Labor Process
If I’m hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, ‘Hey, why don’t you go downstairs and start a new novel?’
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Hey Kids Wife
I’m unable to really write the kind of song that doesn’t have a visual element, which most songs don’t.
NICK CAVE

Elements Song Writing

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