408 Quotes by Nick Cave

The secret to longevity in the music business is to change, and to be able to change. An actor has to assume other people’s identities. A rock star doesn’t need to do that. But change is important.

Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain’t learned to love me yet?

I love rock-n-roll. I think it’s an exciting art form. It’s revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

The rock star is dying. And it’s a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.

There’s an element to songwriting that I can’t explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can’t explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It’s like the origin of the universe.

I’m hugely self-critical in the morning.

If you’re Australian, you feel it in your bones because you’re at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.

I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There’s some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.

Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they’re only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder.