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" You can't trust an artist that just makes good records. "
Nick Cave
Records
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" 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. "
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" Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that. "
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" 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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" There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain. "
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" Personally I find the story of Christ incredibly moving. "
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" Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not. "
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" I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement. "
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" It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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?' "
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" I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story. "
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Hate
" Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life. "
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" The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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Life
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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