List of Nick Cave Quotes

Anything That I'm Doing I'm Writing Specifically For A Particular Project.

The Editing Of A Song Is Largely What Makes The Song For Me And I Think That Actually If I Had Started Going Like 'i Want You To Burn' It Would Have Pinned That Song Down To A Particular Thing And Made That Song A Smaller Idea Than What It Is. By Leaving That Off It's Much More Open, Broader.

I Don't Really Do Japanese Interviews. I Don't Think There's Much Call For Me In Japan.

I've Had To Try And Find A Way Over The Years Of Writing Narratively That Doesn't Really Require You To Sit Down And Work Out What The Story's About. You're Brought Into A Sort Of Sequence Of Images That Have That Emotional Resonance, But It's Kind Of Irrelevant What The Actual Story Is. It's Taken Me Maybe 13 Albums Or Something To Work That Out.

That's What I Like About Watching A Movie: You Enter An Imagined World That's More Interesting, More Engaging Than Your Own. Or Less Painful Than Your Own.

I Have To Be Able To See The Thing That's Going On That I'm Writing About, Or Else It Just Doesn't Make Any Sense To Me.

I Write Hate Lyrics Really Well. It's Not Every Day You Can Use Them, Really.

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.

The Way I Take In The World Is By Seeing It; That Is Very Much Evident In The Songs That I Write.

I'm Hugely Self-critical In The Morning.

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.

I've Always Hated Narrative Songs. I Hate Those Songs Where, Basically, It's An Unfolding Of A Story.