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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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" 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. "

Nick Cave

America

Saying

Simple

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

Nick Cave

Blues

Music

" Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not. "

Nick Cave

True

Said

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" At school I was an anti-magnet for women. "

Nick Cave

School

Women

" The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter. "

" 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. "

Nick Cave

You

Suits

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm hugely self-critical in the morning. "

" I won't go into the details, but I ready myself for the day. I am a high-maintenance type of guy. "

Nick Cave

Myself

Ready

" The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star. "

" 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. "

Nick Cave

God

Time

" To me, I don't write when I'm depressed. If I'm depressed, which is actually rare, I'm not doing anything, you know, and I'm not able to do anything. "

Nick Cave

Doing

You

" 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. "

" Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music. "

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

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

Nick Cave

Relationship

People

" Look, when I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say. "

" 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. "