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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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Nick Cave
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 22
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Nicholas Edward 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.
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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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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 don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
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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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I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.
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