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" 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. "

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" I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music. "

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" 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 write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really. "

" 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. "

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" 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

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" 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. "

" My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education. "

" Most of my ideals and stuff really come from my mother. "

" There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like Green Day or something. But if you put a different beat within it to create some air and lightness, the chaos comes through better. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup. "

" With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on. "

" Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children. "

" The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else. "

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

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

" People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down. "

" There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe. "

" I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that. "

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

" A gentleman never talks about his tailor. "

" 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. "

" When you're on your own, you have all the self-censorship that everybody has when they try and write. All the little voices that say, 'No, you can't write that, what will they think of that?' "

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

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" I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying. "