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He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.

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Nick Cave
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 22
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Warracknabeal
Victoria
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Nicholas Edward Cave
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When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar, they sound convincing. It's important for me to not pursue those ideas, because I've already done them, but to find ideas that are different and feel strange to write and disconcerting to write.
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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 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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Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it
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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.
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People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
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Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.
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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 lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the Johnny Cash Show on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or 10 years old. At that stage I had really no idea about rock'n'roll. I watched him and from that point I saw that music could be an evil thing, a beautiful, evil thing.
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The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else.
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Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
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Most screen violence is tedious.
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Hamlet got a gun now.
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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'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 always thought my records were number one it's just the charts didn't think so.
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My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.
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I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.
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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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This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, cleverer, or more capable, and he stands there beside him with a sense of pride - he's my dad - and he also, of course, stands beside him because he has nowhere else to go.
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