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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?

Nick Cave

My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I’m quite like that in real life as well.
NICK CAVE

Real Records World
We 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 CAVE

Artists Museum Struggle
The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
NICK CAVE

Everybody Musically Singing
Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
NICK CAVE

Children Grieving Past
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
I’m not religious, and I’m not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
NICK CAVE

Believe Christian Religious
Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
NICK CAVE

Betrayal Film Violence
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.
NICK CAVE

Breathing Challenges Musical
I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
NICK CAVE

Always Creation Obligation
I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.
NICK CAVE

Country Duty People Way World
To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
NICK CAVE

Difficult Hatred Years
You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
NICK CAVE

Immediate Scene 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.
NICK CAVE

Christian Country Different People
The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don’t have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.
NICK CAVE

Calendars Office Writing
In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.
NICK CAVE

Class Pants Sorrow
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

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