408 Quotes by Nick Cave

Listen, ah don't wanna speak ill of the dead but have ah told you that mah mother was a great whopping whale of a cunt? Well she was precisely that - a great whopping whale of a hog's cunt with a dirty maggot for a brain.

It's a wonderful life if you can find it.

I am damned,' thinks Bunny Munro in a sudden moment of self-awareness reserved for those who are soon to die.

She was given to me to put things rightAnd I stacked all my accomplishments beside herStill I seemed so obselete and smallI found God and all His devils inside herIn my bed she cast the blizzard outA mock sun blazed upon her headSo completely filled with light she wasHer shadow fanged and hairy and madOur love-lines grew hopelessly tangledAnd the bells from the chapel went jingle-jangle

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

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.

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.