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I am the captain of my pain.
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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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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Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche. It's never going to change.
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In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact.
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I’ve never intended to make religious records or records that preach some kind of point of view... If you’re involved with imagination and the creative process, it’s not such a difficult thing to believe in a god. But I’m not involved in any religions.
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Hamlet got a gun now.
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I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods.
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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 have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make any sense to me.
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I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that.
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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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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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The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.
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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 am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the point.
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The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter.
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And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me
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Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions.
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He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.
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Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It's the only thing we've really got, and I don't mean to sound bleak about this, but it's a unifying factor amongst us all.
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The editing of a song is largely what makes the song for me and I think that actually if I had started going like 'I want you to burn' it would have pinned that song down to a particular thing and made that song a smaller idea than what it is. By leaving that off it's much more open, broader.
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