I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so. 
A gentleman never talks about his tailor. 
I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan. 
I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs. 
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life. 
I write songs from the point of view I had at a time;I'm not tryingto write songs from a young person's point of view.That only ends in disaster. 
I'm a bad motherfucker, don't you knowand I'll crawl over fifty good pussies just to get to one fat boy's asshole, said Stagger Lee.
No wonder sorrow doesn't smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad. 
I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden. 
Buddy, you've been warned. 
To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting. 
My true intent is all for your delight. 
I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become. 
I still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene, which I'm quite happy about to be honest. 
When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like. 
I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god. 
I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really. 
I'm hugely self-critical in the morning. 
My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education. 
When you're talking about rock n' roll, myth-making is what it's all about. 
God is in everything whether I'm mentioning him or not. 
If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it! 
Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph. 
No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo. 
Most of my ideals and stuff really come from my mother. 
Do I personally believe in a personal God? No. 
I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect. 
Stars have their moments then they die. 
Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy. 
You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate. 
I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely. 
I am the captain of my pain. 
You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan. 
If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about. 
I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places. 
My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits. 
I am damned,' thinks Bunny Munro in a sudden moment of self-awareness reserved for those who are soon to die. ![Nick Cave quotes: What we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something quite different.](http://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/nick-cave-quotes-1184160.jpg "Nick Cave quotes: What we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something quite different.")
What we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something quite different. 
He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in, 
Oh, fuck it, I'm a monster, I admit it! 
Comatose, Pa's wife, the slobstress, buried an armchair beneath her bulk. 
I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence. 
And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow. 
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. 
You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of boredom. 
You ain't got no self-respect,you feel like an insect
Well don't you worry buddy,
cause here he comes
Vagina man,' said Bunny, and his two colleagues went quiet and nodded in silent agreement. 
People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down. 
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. 
Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things. 
I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people. 
I can control the weather with my moods. I just can't control my moods. 
Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously. 
As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup. 
Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly. 
I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really. 
A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer ... 
Hamlet got a gun now. 
Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work. 
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. 
A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh. 
am the guy with the flies. I am the one that dies. 