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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. -- Nick Cave
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Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness. -- Nick Cave
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I'm always sort of looking for projects that I can sort of put out into the world, into the public sphere, and to somehow cause an effect. I want to be able to create projects that sort of are going to make people think and think in this sort of magical, sort of fantastical way. -- Nick Cave
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The last thing I ever wanted to get involved with is Hollywood. The way it works is that people get an idea you could possibly do something, but there's a one-in-a-hundred chance that it could get made. -- Nick Cave
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That's what I like about watching a movie: you enter an imagined world that's more interesting, more engaging than your own. Or less painful than your own. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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I write songs from the point of view I had at a time;I'm not tryingto write songs from a young person's point of view.That only ends in disaster. -- Nick Cave
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Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I see that it's too long, I'll start cutting. -- Nick Cave
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I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan. -- Nick Cave
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Listen, ah don't wanna speak ill of the dead but have ah told you that mah mother was a great whopping whale of a cunt? Well she was precisely that - a great whopping whale of a hog's cunt with a dirty maggot for a brain. -- Nick Cave
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The secret to longevity in the music business is to change, and to be able to change. An actor has to assume other people's identities. A rock star doesn't need to do that. But change is important. -- Nick Cave
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The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive. -- Nick Cave
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I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I'm a man. -- Nick Cave
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The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful. -- Nick Cave
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People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions. -- Nick Cave
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God is in everything whether I'm mentioning him or not. -- Nick Cave
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My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory. -- Nick Cave
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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
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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. -- Nick Cave
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I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the point. -- Nick Cave
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When you're talking about rock n' roll, myth-making is what it's all about. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star. -- Nick Cave
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I feel very much a part of what I'm writing about, and I'm writing about things that concern me on a daily basis. I'm not really interested in writing musical diaries, if you know what I mean. -- Nick Cave
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I'm a bad motherfucker, don't you know
and I'll crawl over fifty good pussies just to get to one fat boy's asshole, said Stagger Lee. -- Nick Cave
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Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children. -- Nick Cave
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Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated. -- Nick Cave
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I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way. -- Nick Cave
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L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation. -- Nick Cave
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But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals
Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten ... -- Nick Cave
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What I'm resistant to is the 'Walk the Line' biopic, where you have this redemptive life done in two hours. It just doesn't wash with me. I've been there and things don't work out that way. -- Nick Cave
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I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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Look, when I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say. -- Nick Cave
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I don't really care who collects my work, black, white, red, yellow. You have to also be consciously aware of, what does this mean in your home? And how are you supporting this work and the message behind the work? -- Nick Cave
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Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs just don't have that capacity. They're locked within a period of time. And as soon as you take them out of that period of time, they die very quickly. -- Nick Cave
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The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter. -- Nick Cave
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The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor. -- Nick Cave
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I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs. -- Nick Cave
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The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they're alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes. -- Nick Cave
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I'm hugely self-critical in the morning. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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Get down, get down, little Henry Lee
And stay all night with me
You won't find a girl in this damn world
That will compare with me
And the wind did howl and the wind did blow
La la la la la
La la la la lee
A little bird lit down on Henry Lee ... -- Nick Cave
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And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me -- Nick Cave
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I'm forever near a stereo saying, 'What the fuck is this garbage?' And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers. -- Nick Cave
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I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a much murkier, much more complex view of its history. It's just full of all these open wounds we don't really know what to do with. -- Nick Cave
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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate. -- Nick Cave
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I've always felt like an imposter, in the whole, as a musician. -- Nick Cave
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Be mindful of the prayers you send
pray hard but pray with care
for the tears you are crying now are just your answered prayers
letters of light we scale merrily, move mysteriously around
so that when you think you're climbing up, man, in fact you're climbing down -- Nick Cave
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Vagina man,' said Bunny, and his two colleagues went quiet and nodded in silent agreement. -- Nick Cave
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I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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Humming softly with the child asleep in his arms, Sardus Swift looked to the winking stars and saw the moon - a smirk on the face of heaven - as he made his way home. -- Nick Cave
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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
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This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, cleverer, or more capable, and he stands there beside him with a sense of pride - he's my dad - and he also, of course, stands beside him because he has nowhere else to go. -- Nick Cave
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The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist. -- Nick Cave
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You've got to understand your limitations. It's your limitations that make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are. -- Nick Cave
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There are those who work so they can stop.
Stopping is the why of work.
There are those who stop so they can work.
Working is the why of work. -- Nick Cave
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Do you hear what I hear, babe? Does it make you feel afraid? -- Nick Cave
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I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time. -- Nick Cave
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Into the mercy seat I climb My head is shaved, my head is wired And like a moth that tries To enter the bright eye I go shuffling out of life Just to hide in death awhile And anyway I never lied. -- Nick Cave
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I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche. It's never going to change. -- Nick Cave
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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?' -- Nick Cave
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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 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
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Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of different ways people explain that, but, you know, I find that if I sit down and I prepare myself, generally things get done. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer ... -- Nick Cave
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I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really. -- Nick Cave
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I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places. -- Nick Cave
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Wanting everything is the thing that eventually tears you apart. -- Nick Cave
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I've watched 'Oprah Winfrey.' And I'm proud. I don't care what anybody says! I don't know whether I've watched it. I've been in the room while it's been on. -- Nick Cave
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I still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene, which I'm quite happy about to be honest. -- Nick Cave
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Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act. -- Nick Cave
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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that. -- Nick Cave
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If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well. -- Nick Cave
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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body. -- Nick Cave
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There Will Always Be Suffering
It Flows Through Life Like Water -- Nick Cave
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Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff. -- Nick Cave
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I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely. -- Nick Cave
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I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really. -- Nick Cave
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You're collaborating with people you don't even know, when you're making a film. You're collaborating with people you've never seen. So, the collaborative process is very, very different than when you're collaborating on a record with the musicians you've worked with all your life. -- Nick Cave
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Oh, we will know, won't we?
The stars will explode in the sky
Oh, but they don't, do they?
Stars have their moment and then they die -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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It's a wonderful life if you can find it. -- Nick Cave
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I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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What we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something quite different. -- Nick Cave
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I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence. -- Nick Cave
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The guitar is something you kind of embrace, and the piano is something you kind of - when you play it, you sort of push it away. It feels very different. -- Nick Cave
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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music. -- Nick Cave
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I've always had an obligation to creation, above all. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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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
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No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. -- Nick Cave
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I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year. -- Nick Cave
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Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly. -- Nick Cave
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Buddy, you've been warned. -- Nick Cave
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Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built
out of longing great wonders have been willed
they're only little tears darling let them spill
and lay your head upon my shoulder. -- Nick Cave
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The older I get, the more I feel those kinds of ghosts - especially the women in my life - moving out of the shadows a bit more and becoming more present in my life. -- Nick Cave
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You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of boredom. -- Nick Cave
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I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange. -- Nick Cave
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Samuel: What's a misanthrope?
Two Bob: A misanthrope is a bugger who hates every other bugger.
Samuel: Are we misanthropes?
Arthur: Lord no! We're family. -- Nick Cave
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It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your pants. There's a kind of nervy element about it. -- Nick Cave
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Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby
And you ain't learned to love me yet? -- Nick Cave
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At school I was an anti-magnet for women. -- Nick Cave
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Rock music is the province of the young, and it should be made by young people. I'm not running around in a pair of spandex tights trying to reclaim my youth. -- Nick Cave
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Then he smiles because he knows deep in his bones that his dad has gone and said something really funny probably. He kicks off his sheet and slides his feet into his slippers. Bunny sits in the living room, slumped low on the sofa, full of Geoffrey's Scotch and Poodle's cocaine. -- Nick Cave
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And Satan sighed and shook his head, played harp amongst the flames. 'It's Hell up there in Heaven too, for all that that is worth. Heaven is just a lie of mine to make it Hell on Earth. -- Nick Cave
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And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow. -- Nick Cave
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There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like Green Day or something. But if you put a different beat within it to create some air and lightness, the chaos comes through better. -- Nick Cave
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God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowel-less being of the Testaments - the vehement glory-monger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice - the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants. -- Nick Cave
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I just found this world a hard place to be good in,' says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still. -- Nick Cave
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My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God. -- Nick Cave
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He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in, -- Nick Cave
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The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me. -- Nick Cave
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Most of my ideals and stuff really come from my mother. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down. -- Nick Cave
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Mummy was a swine: a scum-cunted, likkered-up, brain-sick swine. She was lazy and slothful and dirty and belligerent and altogether evil. Ma was a soak - a drunk - a piss-eyed hell-bag with a taste for the homebrew. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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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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Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously. -- Nick Cave
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If you're involved with imagination and the creative process, it's not such a difficult thing to believe in a God. But I'm not involved in any religions, and I've never intended to make religious records or records that preach some kind of point of view. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence. -- Nick Cave
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Comatose, Pa's wife, the slobstress, buried an armchair beneath her bulk. -- Nick Cave
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Sound doesn't always have to be heard. Sound can also be created by how a pattern is set up on a surface- how it moves across the surface, how light reflects the surface [and] can generate a feeling. Sound can also be through feeling, through color, through texture. -- Nick Cave
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Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy. -- Nick Cave
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I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story. -- Nick Cave
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Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed
But all the past still yet to come ... -- Nick Cave
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am the guy with the flies. I am the one that dies. -- Nick Cave
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Everybody tends to overplay live. That's just the nature of playing live. And that can be great, but it can also kill something that's special, and intimate, about a recorded version of a song. You find out very quickly which songs you can play, and which songs you do damage to by playing them live. -- Nick Cave
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My true intent is all for your delight. -- Nick Cave
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My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education. -- Nick Cave
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Hamlet got a gun now. -- Nick Cave
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An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany. -- Nick Cave
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To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting. -- Nick Cave
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I am damned,' thinks Bunny Munro in a sudden moment of self-awareness reserved for those who are soon to die. -- Nick Cave
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Well, I said, if the past don't get you, the fucking future sure will. -- Nick Cave
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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life. -- Nick Cave
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Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It's the only thing we've really got, and I don't mean to sound bleak about this, but it's a unifying factor amongst us all. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike. -- Nick Cave
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When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts babe we know it, that you weren't much of a muse, but then, I weren't much of a poet. -- Nick Cave
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I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things. -- Nick Cave
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Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you're in the middle of it -- Nick Cave
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No wonder sorrow doesn't smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad. -- Nick Cave
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It's always a risky business inviting somebody on stage. You never know what they're going to do. I try to avoid letting people join me onstage because it can be very distracting, and overly theatrical. -- Nick Cave
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Personally I find the story of Christ incredibly moving. -- Nick Cave
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I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion. -- Nick Cave
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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music. -- Nick Cave
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You can't trust an artist that just makes good records. -- Nick Cave
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I have things that I'm interested in, and I'm not really interested in writing about anything that I'm not interested in. But it's important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture. -- Nick Cave
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If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it! -- Nick Cave
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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
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You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan. -- Nick Cave
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Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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The body becomes the carrier for the work. It's not really about the physical body; it really becomes the apparatus that carries and moves the work. I don't really consider the body as much; I look at it as a tool. -- Nick Cave
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Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine! -- Nick Cave
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When you're making a film, there are so many people involved that you get opinions and notes from people and you don't even know who they are. I find that quite difficult and it wears you down. -- Nick Cave
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In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror. -- Nick Cave
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As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup. -- Nick Cave
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Do I personally believe in a personal God? No. -- Nick Cave
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I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination. -- Nick Cave
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I won't go into the details, but I ready myself for the day. I am a high-maintenance type of guy. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not. -- Nick Cave
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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
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I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people. -- Nick Cave
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Stars have their moments then they die. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect. -- Nick Cave
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I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable. -- Nick Cave
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I've never been interested in being relevant. -- Nick Cave
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I've got some words of wisdom. -- Nick Cave
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I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar. -- Nick Cave
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The butcher bird makes its noise
And asks you to agree
With its brutal nesting habits
And its pointless savagery
Now, the nightingale sings to you
And raises up the ante
I put one hand on your round ripe heart
And the other down your panties -- Nick Cave
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You ain't got no self-respect,
you feel like an insect
Well don't you worry buddy,
cause here he comes -- Nick Cave
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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
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A gentleman never talks about his tailor. -- Nick Cave
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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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There are times when I think I can sing it better, but usually I find that I can't. -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book ... well, it can overpower you. -- Nick Cave
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We sit at the gate and scratch, the gaunt fruit of passion. -- Nick Cave
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I can control the weather with my moods. I just can't control my moods. -- Nick Cave
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Oh, fuck it, I'm a monster, I admit it! -- Nick Cave
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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. -- Nick Cave
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I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so. -- Nick Cave
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You don't meet a lot of people that you really like. I don't anyway. -- Nick Cave
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I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become. -- Nick Cave
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I am the captain of my pain. -- Nick Cave
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Most screen violence is tedious. -- Nick Cave
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It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia. -- Nick Cave