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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

Nick Cave

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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Balls Thinking Years
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
Stars have their moments then they die.
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Dies Moments Stars
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
That’s what we [outsiders] feel America is really about – the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right – when it’s probably something quite different.
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Christian Country Different People
In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.
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Class Pants Sorrow
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
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
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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Damage Gun West
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.
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Country Grew Influence
I’m very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It’s the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.
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Art Beautiful Inspire
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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Artists Museum Struggle
Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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Levels Reduction Texting
Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
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Particular Projects Writing
We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, “Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?”
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Artist Needs Social

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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