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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.

Nick Cave

I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
NICK CAVE

Children Past Way
The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
NICK CAVE

Needles Reality Stuck
Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
NICK CAVE

Feels Matter Want
I’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
NICK CAVE

Bigs Fans Lookout
Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
NICK CAVE

Children Grieving Past
Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
NICK CAVE

Betrayal Film Violence
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.
NICK CAVE

Damage Gun West
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.
NICK CAVE

Balls Thinking Years
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 see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.
NICK CAVE

Country Duty People Way World
I’m unable to really write the kind of song that doesn’t have a visual element, which most songs don’t.
NICK CAVE

Elements Song Writing
You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
NICK CAVE

Immediate Scene Writing
I don’t really care who collects my work, black, white, red, yellow. You have to also be consciously aware of, what does this mean in your home? And how are you supporting this work and the message behind the work?
NICK CAVE

Home Mean Yellow
Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
NICK CAVE

Levels Reduction Texting
I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
NICK CAVE

Country Invisible People Suspects
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.
NICK CAVE

Musician Running Writing

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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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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