408 Quotes by Nick Cave

As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.

It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love and for comfort and it lives on the lips of the child crying for his mother. It is the song of the lover in need of her loved one, the raving of the lunatic supplicant petitioning his God...The love song is the sound of our endeavors to become God-like, to rise up and above the earthbound and the mediocre.

I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning.

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

I still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene, which I'm quite happy about to be honest.

I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood.

To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting.