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Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.

Nick Cave

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
The 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.
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Book Ideas Writing
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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Song World Writing
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
Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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Levels Reduction Texting
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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Dirty Garden Knees
I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
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Always Creation Obligation
I write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
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Hate Use Writing
Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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Children Grieving Past
Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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Australian Country Day Happened People
I have things that I’m interested in, and I’m not really interested in writing about anything that I’m not interested in. But it’s important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture.
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Important Perspective Writing
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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Comforting Lying Night
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
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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Hey Kids Wife
A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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Gentleman Southern Gentleman Tailors
Stars have their moments then they die.
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Dies Moments Stars

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