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
The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.
A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.
I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect.
I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.
I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the 'Johnny Cash Show' on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or 10 years old. At that stage I had really no idea about rock n' roll. I watched him, and from that point I saw that music could be an evil thing - a beautiful, evil thing.
I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.
I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make any sense to me.
Most screen violence is tedious.
Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.
If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
I don't like those songs where you have to listen to a story to get into them. I don't want to have to pay attention to music in that way, I just want it to hit me in the heart and do what music's supposed to do.