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.
NICK CAVEI 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.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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Writing 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.
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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
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Stars have their moments then they die.
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To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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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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I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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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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The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.
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I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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I’m unable to really write the kind of song that doesn’t have a visual element, which most songs don’t.
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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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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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The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists – second rate Christianity.
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