The idea of acting is something that absolutely repulses me. I just can’t do it. I’m terrible at it. I get roped into films every now and then, and it’s always a disaster. Nick Cave Read Quote
I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I’m concerned I’m actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I’m a man. Nick Cave Read Quote
When I perform onstage, I’m actually kind of nearsighted, so I don’t have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like. Nick Cave Read Quote
I’m kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books. Nick Cave Read Quote
The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else. Nick Cave Read Quote
Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff. Nick Cave Read Quote
