The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
NICK CAVEKylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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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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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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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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The 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.
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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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Stars have their moments then they die.
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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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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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No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
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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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I’m unable to really write the kind of song that doesn’t have a visual element, which most songs don’t.
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My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I’m quite like that in real life as well.
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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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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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