What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these artifacts that are taken out of context and how we're forced to view them as objects, as relics, as sculpture- static. But what's interesting is what it allows me to do in my head in terms of imagining what the possibilities are or imagining the role in which they played within a particular culture which I'm fascinated by.
Nick CaveI don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?
Nick CaveI see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.
Nick CavePeople think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
Nick CaveWe as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, "Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?"
Nick CaveThere's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe.
Nick Cave