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I think there’s a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

Nick Cave

The 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.
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Breathing Challenges Musical
The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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Everybody Musically Singing
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
I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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Children Past Way
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.
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Balls Thinking Years
Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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Levels Reduction Texting
Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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Feels Matter Want
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
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
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
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Beneficial Levels Writing
If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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Autumn Hard Work Years
I’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.
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Leaving Mind People
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?”
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Artist Needs Social
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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Different Eye Song
The body becomes the carrier for the work. It’s not really about the physical body; it really becomes the apparatus that carries and moves the work. I don’t really consider the body as much; I look at it as a tool.
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Apparatus Looks Moving Tools

I think there’s a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

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