Australian - Musician | September 22, 1957 -
People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down.
Nick Cave
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Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.
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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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If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.
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I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable.
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My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that.
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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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I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
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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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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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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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As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.
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