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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

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

Difficult Hatred Years
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 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.
NICK CAVE

Apparatus Looks Moving Tools
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
NICK CAVE

Heart Looks Muse Poet
Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists – second rate Christianity.
NICK CAVE

Christianity Communist Jesus
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.
NICK CAVE

Musician Running Writing
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?”
NICK CAVE

Artist Needs Social
Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
NICK CAVE

Levels Reduction Texting
I’ve watched ‘Oprah Winfrey.’ And I’m proud. I don’t care what anybody says! I don’t know whether I’ve watched it. I’ve been in the room while it’s been on.
NICK CAVE

Care Proud Room
The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
NICK CAVE

Body Cells Musical
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
And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.
NICK CAVE

Safe Sorrow Tears
A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
NICK CAVE

Gentleman Southern Gentleman Tailors
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
I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
NICK CAVE

Always Creation Obligation
Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
NICK CAVE

Feels Matter Want

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.

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