Nick Cave Inspirational Quotes (125)

Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for all of these reasons – but ultimately the love songs exist to fill, with language, the silence between ourselves and God, to decrease the distance between the temporal and the divine.

God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowelless being of the Testaments - the vehement glorymonger, 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.

No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

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