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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.

Nick Cave

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.
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Country Duty People Way World
The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don’t have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.
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Calendars Office Writing
Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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Disaster Limitation Wonderful
You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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Immediate Scene Writing
I know when I sit with my band members and we’re playing back a song that we’ve done, I know that they’re experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they’re alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.
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Different Eye Song
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
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
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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Elements Song Writing
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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Christianity Communist Jesus
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 hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
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Hate Use Writing
The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn’t, it dies. It’s important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.
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Breathing Challenges Musical
The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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Everybody Musically Singing
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
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
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
I am not interested in anything that doesn’t have a genuine heart to it. You’ve got to have soul in the hole. If that isn’t there, I don’t see the point.
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Heart Holes Soul
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
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
If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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Autumn Hard Work Years
I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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Butting Imagination People
It’s very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it’s done by the seat of your pants. There’s a kind of nervy element about it.
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Adventure Element Important
To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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Difficult Hatred Years
Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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Feels Matter Want
And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me
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Flower Moving Sparrow
I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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Children Past Way
The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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Body Cells Musical

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