Some are exploring the world through the subconscious. I've done that on occasions for various reasons, whether it be illness or self abuse, or whatever. Once things start to look grotesque I don't write them or sing them. I couldn't write them - making nightmares into living daylight...The minute it gets dark I shoot back, retreat.
Nick CaveIf you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
Nick CaveI think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely.
Nick CaveI write songs from the point of view I had at a time;I'm not tryingto write songs from a young person's point of view.That only ends in disaster.
Nick Cave