Nick Cave Quotes

Stars have their moments then they die.

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

Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that.

I don't believe in an interventionist God

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

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

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

I have to be able to pull you in. How can I diversify my audiences? What role do I have to play to be part of that shift? I have to take that seriously.

Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.

A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid.

At school I was an anti-magnet for women.

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

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

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.

Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I'm in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.

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

Everyone wants to feel that they matter.

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.

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.

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.

There are times when I think I can sing it better, but usually I find that I can't.

Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.

Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.

You don't meet a lot of people that you really like. I don't anyway.

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

My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.

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

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

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.

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

I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.

I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

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

Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche. It's never going to change.

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

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

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

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

And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me

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

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.

I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

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.

Into the mercy seat I climb My head is shaved, my head is wired And like a moth that tries To enter the bright eye I go shuffling out of life Just to hide in death awhile And anyway I never lied.

Most screen violence is tedious.

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.

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.