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" If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?' "
Nick Cave
Wife
You
Why
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" I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden. "
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" 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?' "
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" I've always had an obligation to creation, above all. "
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" A gentleman never talks about his tailor. "
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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. "
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Up
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" The idea of acting is something that absolutely repulses me. I just can't do it. I'm terrible at it. I get roped into films every now and then, and it's always a disaster. "
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" 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. "
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" I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it. "
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" I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange. "
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Beautiful
" You can't trust an artist that just makes good records. "
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Just
Good
" I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they're alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes. "
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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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Think
Art
" 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. "
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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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Girl
Early
Relationship
" 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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" 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. "
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Book
Listening
" What I'm resistant to is the 'Walk the Line' biopic, where you have this redemptive life done in two hours. It just doesn't wash with me. I've been there and things don't work out that way. "
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Done
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" If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that. "
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Great
Look
Work
" 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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Minds
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Leaving
" 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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Fresh
" I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning. "
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" Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work. "
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" The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas. "
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Name
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" I'm hugely self-critical in the morning. "
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" The last thing I ever wanted to get involved with is Hollywood. The way it works is that people get an idea you could possibly do something, but there's a one-in-a-hundred chance that it could get made. "
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You
" I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really. "
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You
" I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way. "
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Way
World
" 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. "
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Anybody
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" 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. "
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Song
Vision