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L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation. — Nick Cave

It's possible to get through life without a religious structure, but I don't think that's a very fruitful way to live. — Nick Cave

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike. — Nick Cave

I just found this world a hard place to be good in,' says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still. — Nick Cave

There Will Always Be Suffering
It Flows Through Life Like Water — Nick Cave

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body. — Nick Cave

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all. — Nick Cave

The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist. — Nick Cave

I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books. — Nick Cave

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that. — Nick Cave

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions. — Nick Cave

Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I see that it's too long, I'll start cutting. — Nick Cave

I've never been interested in being relevant. — Nick Cave

To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going. — Nick Cave

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia. — Nick Cave

My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God. — Nick Cave

Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book ... well, it can overpower you. — Nick Cave

I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one. — Nick Cave

I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year. — Nick Cave

I've got some words of wisdom. — Nick Cave

Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions. — Nick Cave

I've always felt like an imposter, in the whole, as a musician. — Nick Cave

The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me. — Nick Cave

In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror. — Nick Cave

Oh, we will know, won't we?
The stars will explode in the sky
Oh, but they don't, do they?
Stars have their moment and then they die — Nick Cave

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain. — Nick Cave

It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say. — Nick Cave

Wanting everything is the thing that eventually tears you apart. — Nick Cave

The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star. — Nick Cave

You've got to understand your limitations. It's your limitations that make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are. — Nick Cave

If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?' — Nick Cave

Personally I find the story of Christ incredibly moving. — Nick Cave

I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar. — Nick Cave

One of my big fears is drying up, and the more I create, the more I feel myself shrinking beneath the backlog of work I've done. — Nick Cave

Most of my ideals and stuff really come from my mother. — Nick Cave

You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate. — Nick Cave

Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy. — Nick Cave

Stars have their moments then they die. — Nick Cave

I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect. — Nick Cave

I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely. — Nick Cave

Do I personally believe in a personal God? No. — Nick Cave

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike. — Nick Cave

If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it! — Nick Cave

Comatose, Pa's wife, the slobstress, buried an armchair beneath her bulk. — Nick Cave

I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts babe we know it, that you weren't much of a muse, but then, I weren't much of a poet. — Nick Cave

People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down. — Nick Cave

Vagina man,' said Bunny, and his two colleagues went quiet and nodded in silent agreement. — Nick Cave

I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that. — Nick Cave

You ain't got no self-respect,
you feel like an insect
Well don't you worry buddy,
cause here he comes — Nick Cave

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. — Nick Cave

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. — Nick Cave

And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow. — Nick Cave

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence. — Nick Cave

I am the captain of my pain. — Nick Cave

Oh, fuck it, I'm a monster, I admit it! — Nick Cave

He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in, — Nick Cave

What we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something quite different. — Nick Cave

I am damned,' thinks Bunny Munro in a sudden moment of self-awareness reserved for those who are soon to die. — Nick Cave

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. — Nick Cave

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. — Nick Cave

If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about. — Nick Cave

You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan. — Nick Cave

I'm a bad motherfucker, don't you know
and I'll crawl over fifty good pussies just to get to one fat boy's asshole, said Stagger Lee. — Nick Cave

Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music. — Nick Cave

Well, I said, if the past don't get you, the fucking future sure will. — Nick Cave

To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting. — Nick Cave

Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you're in the middle of it — Nick Cave

Buddy, you've been warned. — Nick Cave

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden. — Nick Cave

I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion. — Nick Cave

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative. — Stephen Malkmus

No wonder sorrow doesn't smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad. — Nick Cave

My true intent is all for your delight. — Nick Cave

It's a wonderful life if you can find it. — Nick Cave

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. — Nick Cave

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life. — Nick Cave

I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs. — Nick Cave

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed. — Nick Cave

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement. — Nick Cave

I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan. — Nick Cave

A gentleman never talks about his tailor. — Nick Cave

God is in everything whether I'm mentioning him or not. — Nick Cave

Do you hear what I hear, babe? Does it make you feel afraid? — Nick Cave

No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo. — Nick Cave

Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph. — Nick Cave

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 Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not. — Nick Cave

My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory. — Nick Cave

Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine! — Nick Cave

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so. — Nick Cave

We sit at the gate and scratch, the gaunt fruit of passion. — Nick Cave

What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood. — Nick Cave

When you're talking about rock n' roll, myth-making is what it's all about. — Nick Cave

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education. — Nick Cave

I'm hugely self-critical in the morning. — Nick Cave

I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really. — Nick Cave

I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god. — Nick Cave

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. — Nick Cave

I still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene, which I'm quite happy about to be honest. — Nick Cave

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become. — Nick Cave