QUOTES by Nick Cave
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The last thing I ever wanted to get involved with is Hollywood. The way it works is that people get an idea you could possibly do something, but there's a one-in-a-hundred chance that it could get made.
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I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.
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I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.
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At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.
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I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
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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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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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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.
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With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on.
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The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level.
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I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.
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The only person who can say they're happy getting old is someone who isn't actually old yet. Every day, I get less and less happy about that idea.
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I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.
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L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.
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At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.
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Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.
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I've watched 'Oprah Winfrey.' And I'm proud. I don't care what anybody says! I don't know whether I've watched it. I've been in the room while it's been on.
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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.
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As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.
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If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?'
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If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.
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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'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a much murkier, much more complex view of its history. It's just full of all these open wounds we don't really know what to do with.
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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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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.
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I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.
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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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The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.
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No, I wouldn't direct a movie, no. I couldn't. I don't have the patience for it, I don't have the people skills. You have to be clever. I'm not really clever in that kind of way. And you have to be able to manipulate people, but at the same time allow them to feel like they are manipulating you, to get the kind of movie that you want.
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I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.
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Look, when I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say.
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I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.
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There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe.
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I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.
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