Nick Cave Quotes

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a gar...

The boy will grow older, and over time there will be other songs – not many – ten or maybe twenty in...

There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work.There are those who stop so t...

The boy will grow older, and over time there will be other songs – not many – ten or maybe twenty in...

Memory is imagined; it is not real. Don't be ashamed of its need to create; it is the loveliest part...

Then he smiles because he knows deep in his bones that his dad has gone and said something really fu...

I just found this world a hard place to be good in,’ says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with a...

Out of sorrow entire worlds have been builtOut of longing great wonders have been willed

Listen, ah don't wanna speak ill of the dead but have ah told you that mah mother was a great whoppi...

I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was...

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in e...

After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the o...

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibalsSooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

All of our days are numbered; we cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to no...

This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, ...

No, I wouldn't direct a movie, no. I couldn't. I don't have the patience for it, I don't have the pe...

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind...

You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.

Who knows their own story? Certainly it makes no sense when we are living in the midst of it. It's a...

I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching f...

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense o...

The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous...

The last thing I ever wanted to get involved with is Hollywood. The way it works is that people get ...

I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility...

I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.

I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to ha...

Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing th...

The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into...

I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from so...

I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent sh...

I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red ...

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to preven...

Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West ...