408 Quotes by Nick Cave

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.

I won't go into the details, but I ready myself for the day. I am a high-maintenance type of guy.

Rock music is the province of the young, and it should be made by young people. I'm not running around in a pair of spandex tights trying to reclaim my youth.

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.

Do I personally believe in a personal God? No.

I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.

My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.

I've always felt like an imposter, in the whole, as a musician.

The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.