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When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.

Nick Cave

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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Country Invisible People Suspects
Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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Feels Matter Want
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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Musician Running Writing
When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.
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Comforting Lying Night
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
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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Dirty Garden Knees
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.
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Leaving Mind People
To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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Difficult Hatred Years
And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.
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Safe Sorrow Tears
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.
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Anything Inspiration Office People
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?
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Home Mean Yellow
I have things that I’m interested in, and I’m not really interested in writing about anything that I’m not interested in. But it’s important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture.
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Important Perspective Writing
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
A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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Gentleman Southern Gentleman Tailors
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
Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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Levels Reduction Texting

When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.

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When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.

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