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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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" I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them. "

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" I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books. "

" I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story. "

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

" 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. "

" Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life. "

" Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you. "

" You can't trust an artist that just makes good records. "

" An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany. "

" Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you're making a film, there are so many people involved that you get opinions and notes from people and you don't even know who they are. I find that quite difficult and it wears you down. "

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

" 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. What do I write about? I never know. "

" What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood. "

" A gentleman never talks about his tailor. "

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

" 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 guitar is something you kind of embrace, and the piano is something you kind of - when you play it, you sort of push it away. It feels very different. "

" I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the 'Johnny Cash Show' on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or 10 years old. At that stage I had really no idea about rock n' roll. I watched him, and from that point I saw that music could be an evil thing - a beautiful, evil thing. "

" 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. "

" L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful. "

Nick Cave

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