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.
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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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.
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Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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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’m not religious, and I’m not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
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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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Stars have their moments then they die.
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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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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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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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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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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.
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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
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It’s always a risky business inviting somebody on stage. You never know what they’re going to do. I try to avoid letting people join me onstage because it can be very distracting, and overly theatrical.
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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.
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