I’m unable to really write the kind of song that doesn’t have a visual element, which most songs don’t.
NICK CAVEI think there’s a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.
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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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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
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Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.
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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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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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I’m an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American – blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
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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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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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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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I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don’t like to get my knees dirty. I don’t have a garden.
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The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.
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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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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.
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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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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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