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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.

Nick Cave

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

Immediate Scene Writing
A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
NICK CAVE

Gentleman Southern Gentleman Tailors
I’m an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American – blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
NICK CAVE

Country Grew Influence
Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
NICK CAVE

Children Grieving Past
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
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.
NICK CAVE

Different Eye Song
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.
NICK CAVE

Age Country Obvious People Song Writing
The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
NICK CAVE

Everybody Musically Singing
It’s very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it’s done by the seat of your pants. There’s a kind of nervy element about it.
NICK CAVE

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

Difficult Hatred Years
I write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
NICK CAVE

Hate Use Writing
When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.
NICK CAVE

Comforting Lying Night
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
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
I’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
NICK CAVE

Bigs Fans Lookout

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