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.
NICK CAVEThe 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.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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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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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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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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 society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
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And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me
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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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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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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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I’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
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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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Stars have their moments then they die.
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