Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists - second rate Christianity.
Nick CaveI've had to try and find a way over the years of writing narratively that doesn't really require you to sit down and work out what the story's about. You're brought into a sort of sequence of images that have that emotional resonance, but it's kind of irrelevant what the actual story is. It's taken me maybe 13 albums or something to work that out.
Nick CaveEverybody 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 CaveI want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.
Nick Cave