408 Quotes by Nick Cave

I’m not in the business of telling people what to do. I’m much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.

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

Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.

God is in everything whether I’m mentioning him or not.

I’ve never been interested in being relevant.

God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowel-less being of the Testaments – the vehement glory-monger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice – the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants.

I always thought my records were number one; it’s just the charts didn’t think so.

I’m a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can’t help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

Everybody tends to overplay live. That’s just the nature of playing live. And that can be great, but it can also kill something that’s special, and intimate, about a recorded version of a song. You find out very quickly which songs you can play, and which songs you do damage to by playing them live.