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Look, when I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say.

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Nick Cave
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 22
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That's what we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something quite different.
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I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.
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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.
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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.
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The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else.
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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.
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Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it
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When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar, they sound convincing. It's important for me to not pursue those ideas, because I've already done them, but to find ideas that are different and feel strange to write and disconcerting to write.
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