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.
NICK CAVEWriting 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.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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.
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I’ve always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.
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I’m not religious, and I’m not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
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The problem with books, now that I’ve written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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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.
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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
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The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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I 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?
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I write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
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