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I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Nick Cave

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
Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
NICK CAVE

Particular Projects Writing
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.
NICK CAVE

Book Ideas Writing
The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
NICK CAVE

Body Cells Musical
I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
NICK CAVE

Butting Imagination People
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.
NICK CAVE

Anything Inspiration Office People
I’m not religious, and I’m not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
NICK CAVE

Believe Christian Religious
The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
NICK CAVE

Needles Reality Stuck
I think there’s a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.
NICK CAVE

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

Children Past Way
Moving 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 CAVE

Country Moving Notion Romantic
I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
NICK CAVE

Always Creation Obligation
In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.
NICK CAVE

Class Pants Sorrow
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.
NICK CAVE

Heart Holes Soul
I’m not in the business of telling people what to do. I’m much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.
NICK CAVE

Leaving Mind People
The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
NICK CAVE

Everybody Musically Singing

I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.

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