To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
NICK CAVETo sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
NICK CAVEWe 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?”
NICK CAVEAnd she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me
NICK CAVEIf you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
NICK CAVEThe 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.
NICK CAVEMoving 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.
NICK CAVEIt’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.
NICK CAVEI write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
NICK CAVEI 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 CAVEThe 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.
NICK CAVEIf I’m hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, ‘Hey, why don’t you go downstairs and start a new novel?’
NICK CAVEGuns 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 CAVEI 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 CAVEI’ve always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.
NICK CAVEI’m an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American – blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
NICK CAVEAnd I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.
NICK CAVE