Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to the defiant, dealing in love, war, beauty, children, romance, rejection, Pethedine, poetry, panties, God, Auden, Johnny Cash, cold potatoes, too-much-money, not enough money, writerโs block, flowers, animals and more flowers. But maybe Iโm projecting here.
Nick CaveI love America. I really do. It's by far the place I like visiting out of anywhere in the world. I get a palpable sense of excitement when the plane's landing. It's a clichรฉ, but there's still an incredible energy about New York in particular.
Nick CaveI still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene, which I'm quite happy about to be honest.
Nick CaveI have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.
Nick CaveI'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.
Nick CaveWe cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand, and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you could hold onto that flame, great things could construct around it, that are massive and powerful and world changing, all held up by the tiniest of ideas.
Nick Cave