You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
NICK CAVEYou write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
NICK CAVEI’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
NICK CAVECertainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.
NICK CAVEIt’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 CAVEWe 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 CAVEAnd I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.
NICK CAVEI 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 CAVETexting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
NICK CAVEI 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 CAVEAnything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
NICK CAVESorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
NICK CAVEI think there’s a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.
NICK CAVEAnd she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me
NICK CAVEIf you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
NICK CAVEWhen 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 CAVEThe 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