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I've watched 'Oprah Winfrey.' And I'm proud. I don't care what anybody says! I don't know whether I've watched it. I've been in the room while it's been on.

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Nick Cave
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 22
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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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I just found this world a hard place to be good in,’ says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still.
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You don't meet a lot of people that you really like. I don't anyway.
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What I want people to recognize is that we have to keep working together and take charge because we all have the same story.
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Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions.
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Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
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The body becomes the carrier for the work. It's not really about the physical body it really becomes the apparatus that carries and moves the work. I don't really consider the body as much I look at it as a tool.
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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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No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.
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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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The older I get, the more I feel those kinds of ghosts - especially the women in my life - moving out of the shadows a bit more and becoming more present in my life.
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I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?
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My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.
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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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I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.
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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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Everybody tends to overplay live. That's just the nature of playing live. And that can be great, but it can also kill something that's special, and intimate, about a recorded version of a song. You find out very quickly which songs you can play, and which songs you do damage to by playing them live.
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I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.
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To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.
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Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
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