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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 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. "

Nick Cave

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People

Think

" 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 love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment. "

" 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. "

" If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about. "

" 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 not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god. "

" When you're talking about rock n' roll, myth-making is what it's all about. "

" 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

" I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If beautiful movies can influence you to go out and hug your children, then we have to be honest and say that other movies can inspire you to do bad things. "

" Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid. "

" I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so. "

" I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" A gentleman never talks about his tailor. "

" I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one. "

Nick Cave

Fan

Good

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

" At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out. "

" The only person who can say they're happy getting old is someone who isn't actually old yet. Every day, I get less and less happy about that idea. "

" I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning. "

Nick Cave

Think

Human

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

Nick Cave

Think

Call

" I've always felt like an imposter, in the whole, as a musician. "

Nick Cave

Whole

Musician