Nick Cave
Nick Cave
Nicholas Edward "Nick" Caveis an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional film actor. He is best known as the frontman of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1983, a group known for its diverse output and ever-evolving line-up. Prior to this, he fronted the Birthday Party, one of the most extreme and confrontational post-punk bands of the early 1980s. In 2006, he formed the garage rock band Grinderman, releasing its debut album the following year...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth22 September 1957
CountryAustralia
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.
Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche. It's never going to change.
Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.
If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.
Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.
To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.
What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood.
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.
Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.
You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.
It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.