408 Quotes by Nick Cave

Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it.

People often can’t separate, or can’t understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it’s a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there’s a deep anxiety going on.

You’re one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan.

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There’s immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren’t much of a muse, but then I weren’t much of a poet.

At the end, we’re kind of observers – creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I’m pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.

You’ve got to understand your limitations. It’s your limitations that make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.

I’m not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I’ve done wonders for the feminist movement.

Inspiration is a word used by people who aren’t really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I’m in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.