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.
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.
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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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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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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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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 is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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Stars have their moments then they die.
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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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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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I know when I sit with my band members and we’re playing back a song that we’ve done, I know that they’re experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they’re alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.
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