When I’m singing ‘Deanna,’ 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 Cave Read Quote
I’m not someone who’s particularly in touch with the way they feel. I’ve heard it said that you should be a ‘human being’ not a ‘human doing’, but I’m a human doing, very much so. Nick Cave Read Quote
The last thing I ever wanted to get involved with is Hollywood. The way it works is that people get an idea you could possibly do something, but there’s a one-in-a-hundred chance that it could get made. Nick Cave Read Quote
No, I wouldn’t direct a movie, no. I couldn’t. I don’t have the patience for it, I don’t have the people skills. You have to be clever. I’m not really clever in that kind of way. And you have to be able to manipulate people, but at the same time allow them to feel like they are manipulating you, to get the kind of movie that you want. Nick Cave Read Quote
If you’re Australian, you feel it in your bones because you’re at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences. Nick Cave Read Quote
It’s an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don’t. They believe what you say. Nick Cave Read Quote
What I’m resistant to is the ‘Walk the Line’ biopic, where you have this redemptive life done in two hours. It just doesn’t wash with me. I’ve been there and things don’t work out that way. Nick Cave Read Quote
I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There’s some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it. Nick Cave Read Quote
