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Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it
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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No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
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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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Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.
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The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don't have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.
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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 don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
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The way I take in the world is by seeing it that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
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