The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
NICK CAVEThe society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
NICK CAVEI’m unable to really write the kind of song that doesn’t have a visual element, which most songs don’t.
NICK CAVEAnd she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me
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.
NICK CAVEIn the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.
NICK CAVEEveryone wants to feel that they matter.
NICK CAVEAnd I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.
NICK CAVEJesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists – second rate Christianity.
NICK CAVEI suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
NICK CAVEKylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
NICK CAVENo wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
NICK CAVEStars have their moments then they die.
NICK CAVEI’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
NICK CAVEI 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.
NICK CAVEWhen 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.
NICK CAVEThe band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn’t, it dies. It’s important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.
NICK CAVE