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Nick Cave

Australian

September 22, 1957

Musician

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I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.

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

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Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.

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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.

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I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.

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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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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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The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song.

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If beautiful movies can influence you to go out and hug your children, then we have to be honest and say that other movies can inspire you to do bad things.

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I've always worn suits. To me they're a very practical kind of thing to wear. You put one on and don't really have to think about what you're going to wear.

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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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The idea of acting is something that absolutely repulses me. I just can't do it. I'm terrible at it. I get roped into films every now and then, and it's always a disaster.

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Early on I realized when you write a song about someone, it flatters them on some level, and gives you a lot of room to move within a relationship. A song can kind of get the girl, for sure.

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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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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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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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Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.

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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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I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.

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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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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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