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
I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.
My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.
The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas.
Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that.
You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
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.
Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.
The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.
I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the point.
You know, an idea is just an idea. There seems to... the kind of epiphanies that you have, like the little sudden bursts of light, they're very small and they're very short and it's the pursuit of the idea that's the important thing. . . . I know a lot of people who have way better ideas than I do that-much more frequently than I do that just can't sit down and actually do it. Ideas are such are a little overrated really; it's the work behind the idea that's the important thing.
No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.