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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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Nick Cave
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 22
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Nicholas Edward 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.
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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 don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
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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.
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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.
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I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.
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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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