My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I’m quite like that in real life as well.
NICK CAVEMy records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I’m quite like that in real life as well.
NICK CAVEI have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don’t like to get my knees dirty. I don’t have a garden.
NICK CAVEAnd she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me
NICK CAVEI suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
NICK CAVEIt’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 CAVEThe artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.
NICK CAVEI’m not religious, and I’m not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
NICK CAVEGuns 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.
NICK CAVEYou write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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 CAVEI’m not in the business of telling people what to do. I’m much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.
NICK CAVEI think there’s a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.
NICK CAVEI’m unable to really write the kind of song that doesn’t have a visual element, which most songs don’t.
NICK CAVEI write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
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 CAVEYour limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
NICK CAVE