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I've never been interested in being relevant.

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Nick Cave
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 22
Actor
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Warracknabeal
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Nicholas Edward Cave
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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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