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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.
Nick Cave
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Nick Cave
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 22
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I don't like those songs where you have to listen to a story to get into them. I don't want to have to pay attention to music in that way, I just want it to hit me in the heart and do what music's supposed to do.
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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'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.
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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've never been interested in being relevant.
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I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.
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I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
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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 more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.
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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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There's that kind of song, Whoah baby, I love you, which doesn't have a visual element, but a very strong emotional element, and these are the great songs to me - those ones that you put them on and they just make you feel great, or whatever.
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I've always worn suits. To me they're a very practical kind of thing to wear. You put one on and don't really have to think about what you're going to wear.
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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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