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My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I’m quite like that in real life as well.

Nick Cave

That’s what we [outsiders] feel America is really about – the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right – when it’s probably something quite different.
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Christian Country Different People
A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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Gentleman Southern Gentleman Tailors
The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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Everybody Musically Singing
I love rock-n-roll. I think it’s an exciting art form. It’s revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.
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Art Changed Rocks Thinking
Stars have their moments then they die.
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Dies Moments Stars
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 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’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.
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Done Song Writing
Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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Levels Reduction Texting
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.
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Damage Gun West
I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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Children Past Way
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
The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.
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Artistic Labor Process
The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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Needles Reality Stuck
You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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Immediate Scene 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

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