The secret to longevity in the music business is to change, and to be able to change. [...] An actor has to assume other people's identities. A rock star doesn't need to do that. [...] But change is important.
Nick CaveI 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.
Nick CaveI think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.
Nick CaveI've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.
Nick CaveThe concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas.
Nick Cave