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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?' "
Nick Cave
You
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" In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact. "
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" I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination. "
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" 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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" To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going. "
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" It's possible to get through life without a religious structure, but I don't think that's a very fruitful way to live. "
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" My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny. "
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