Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
NICK CAVEI’m an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American – blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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I’m unable to really write the kind of song that doesn’t have a visual element, which most songs don’t.
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Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists – second rate Christianity.
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The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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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.
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I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren’t much of a muse, but then I weren’t much of a poet
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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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I write songs in batches and then record them and then can’t write again for ages. I try and build one song upon another, they may not obviously look inter-related but often one song acts as a springboard into another.
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Writing 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.
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Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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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.
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The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.
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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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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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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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