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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

Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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Australian Country Day Happened People
The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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Everybody Musically Singing
I’m not in the business of telling people what to do. I’m much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.
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Leaving Mind People
No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
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Sadness Sorrow Wonder
Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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Children Grieving Past
The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.
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Artistic Labor Process
I’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
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Bigs Fans Lookout
Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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Betrayal Film Violence
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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Anything Inspiration Office People
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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Dirty Garden Knees
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.
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Age Country Obvious People Song Writing
I think there’s a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.
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Numbness Thinking Violence
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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Christianity Communist Jesus
The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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Needles Reality Stuck
And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.
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Safe Sorrow Tears
I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.
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Country Duty People Way World
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.
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Different Eye Song
If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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Autumn Hard Work Years
If I’m hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, ‘Hey, why don’t you go downstairs and start a new novel?’
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Hey Kids Wife
A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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Gentleman Southern Gentleman Tailors
It’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.
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Business People Risky Trying
I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
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Always Creation Obligation
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.
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Care Proud Room
I love rock-n-roll. I think it’s an exciting art form. It’s revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.
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Art Changed Rocks Thinking
I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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Country Invisible People Suspects
Certainly 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.
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Country Ordinary People Sound
Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.
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Country Moving Notion Romantic

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.

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