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

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Nick Cave
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 22
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I've always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.
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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.
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We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.
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There's that kind of song, Whoah baby, I love you, which doesn't have a visual element, but a very strong emotional element, and these are the great songs to me - those ones that you put them on and they just make you feel great, or whatever.
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I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.
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Some are exploring the world through the subconscious. I've done that on occasions for various reasons, whether it be illness or self abuse, or whatever. Once things start to look grotesque I don't write them or sing them. I couldn't write them - making nightmares into living daylight...The minute it gets dark I shoot back, retreat.
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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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Hamlet got a gun now.
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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.
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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.
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I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make any sense to me.
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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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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.
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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.
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I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.
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I write songs from the point of view I had at a timeI'm not tryingto write songs from a young person's point of view.That only ends in disaster.
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Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.
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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.
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I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.
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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.
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