Australian - Musician | September 22, 1957 -
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
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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?
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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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A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.
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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.
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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'm hugely self-critical in the morning.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.
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