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
Do I personally believe in a personal God? No.
My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.
The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.
Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.
God is in everything whether I'm mentioning him or not.
If you're involved with imagination and the creative process, it's not such a difficult thing to believe in a God. But I'm not involved in any religions, and I've never intended to make religious records or records that preach some kind of point of view.
Outside the world of politics, one person in the world of the arts I would mention as an influence is Nick Cave, another person who has been around since the late 1970s. He has developed and changed remarkably, whilst remaining true to his vision. He has been a great help to me as well, without his knowing it.
I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.
You don't meet a lot of people that you really like. I don't anyway.
I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.
All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of an idea never becomes apparent until you do it.
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.
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.