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I’m very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It’s the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

Nick Cave

And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me
NICK CAVE

Flower Moving Sparrow
Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
NICK CAVE

Australian Country Day Happened People
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
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.
NICK CAVE

Damage Gun West
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
The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
NICK CAVE

Everybody Musically Singing
I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
NICK CAVE

Butting Imagination People
I write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
NICK CAVE

Hate Use Writing
It’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 CAVE

Business People Risky Trying
I am not interested in anything that doesn’t have a genuine heart to it. You’ve got to have soul in the hole. If that isn’t there, I don’t see the point.
NICK CAVE

Heart Holes Soul
The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
NICK CAVE

Song World Writing
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
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.
NICK CAVE

Balls Thinking Years
The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
NICK CAVE

Needles Reality Stuck
Inspiration 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 CAVE

Anything Inspiration Office People
You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
NICK CAVE

Immediate Scene Writing

I’m very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It’s the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

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