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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.

Nick Cave

Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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Australian Country Day Happened People
Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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Levels Reduction Texting
You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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Immediate Scene Writing
The songs that I like are the ones that you can’t visualize, that are just cries from the heart – those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.
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Heart Rocks Song
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
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
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
Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
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Particular Projects Writing
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
To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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Difficult Hatred Years
The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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Everybody Musically Singing
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
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Beneficial Levels Writing
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 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
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
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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Apparatus Looks Moving Tools

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