Everybody tends to overplay live. That's just the nature of playing live. And that can be great, but it can also kill something that's special, and intimate, about a recorded version of a song. You find out very quickly which songs you can play, and which songs you do damage to by playing them live.
Nick CaveBut if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .
Nick CaveWe are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.
Nick CaveI consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.
Nick CaveI look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet
Nick Cave