A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.
Nick CaveWhen Iโm singing โDeanna,โ for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.
Nick CaveJesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists - second rate Christianity.
Nick CaveI lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the Johnny Cash Show on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or 10 years old. At that stage I had really no idea about rock'n'roll. I watched him and from that point I saw that music could be an evil thing, a beautiful, evil thing.
Nick Cave