I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it.

You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.

Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love.

I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible.

I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.

We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.