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" No, I wouldn't direct a movie, no. I couldn't. I don't have the patience for it, I don't have the people skills. You have to be clever. I'm not really clever in that kind of way. And you have to be able to manipulate people, but at the same time allow them to feel like they are manipulating you, to get the kind of movie that you want. "

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" My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that. "

Nick Cave

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Sometimes

" I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I'm singing 'Deanna,' for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh. "

" After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

Nick Cave

School

Women

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect. "

" 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. "

" Personally I find the story of Christ incredibly moving. "

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

" 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'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human being' not a 'human doing', but I'm a human doing, very much so. "

" 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. "