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Nick Cave

Nick Cave

Australian Musician

Born: Sep 22, 1957

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

Love Performing Always Godlike Person Get Wanted

It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say. Nick Cave

You Believe Say Find Australian Endearing American Thing

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden. Nick Cave

Gardening Garden Dirty Knees Armchair Like Get Interest

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions. Nick Cave

People Miserable Think Only Because Questions Bloody Get Asked Sod

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. Nick Cave

God Religion Creative Church Believe About Write Particular Without Go Any Form Certain Belief Believer Belong

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all. Nick Cave

Obligation Creation Above Had Always

I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one? Nick Cave

Good You Trust Vision Think Films Corporate Directors Makes How Artistic Anymore Communal Hollywood Really Many

I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar. Nick Cave

War Guitar Fighting Always Been Rhythm Electric

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. Nick Cave

Work Happy Book Believe Way Musician Could Write Person Transformed If I Could Happy Person Successful Certain Used Certain Things Things

People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on. Nick Cave

Funny People Anxiety Think Funny Stuff Way Scaring Stuff Underneath Understand Lot Off Going Often Them Separate Deep Serious Pulling

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

World Catalog Songs Massive Leave Just Want

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

Musician Like Felt Always Whole

Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music. Nick Cave

Music Greatest Greatest Thing Australian Happened Thing

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

Me Think Interviews Call Japan Japanese Much Really

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia. Nick Cave

Me Back Pleasure Come Always Australia Personal Personal Note Note

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

Myself Everybody Take Songwriting Act Away

Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children. Nick Cave

Local Libraries Vital Accessible Children Communities

I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion. Nick Cave

Fashion Winds Thrown Feel Around Taste

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. Nick Cave

Funny Myself Long First Consider Way Those Entertain Find Write Writer Stuff Hours Comic Foremost Office Grim

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. Nick Cave

Music Beauty Kind Spirits Lift Balm Intended Then

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