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 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.
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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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I 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.
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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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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.
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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.
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I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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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’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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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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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 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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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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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.
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I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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