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God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowelless being of the Testaments - the vehement glorymonger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice - the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants.

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Nick Cave
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 22
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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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I've never been interested in being relevant.
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I have to be able to pull you in. How can I diversify my audiences? What role do I have to play to be part of that shift? I have to take that seriously.
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When I start writing songs, and they come easily, I'm always very suspicious. That usually means they're reminding me of something I've already done before. When the songs become unsettling, and I feel anxious about what I'm doing, that usually means it's going to be more interesting later on when we actually record the stuff.
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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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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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At school I was an anti-magnet for women.
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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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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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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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