408 Quotes by Nick Cave

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions.

The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.

I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.

Not my biggest fear, but my biggest problem onstage is over-emphasizing what I do. I'm pushing too hard. You need to engage an audience. They need to be able to involve their own imaginations as well. They don't need everything thrust down their throat, and I have a tendency to do that. I always have had a tendency to do that.

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

If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.

The body becomes the carrier for the work. It's not really about the physical body; it really becomes the apparatus that carries and moves the work. I don't really consider the body as much; I look at it as a tool.

I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods.