408 Quotes by Nick Cave

What you’re really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I’m not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood.

I know when I sit with my band members and we’re playing back a song that we’ve done, I know that they’re experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they’re alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.

You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.

Buddy, you’ve been warned.

The problem with books, now that I’ve written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are.

The body becomes the carrier for the work. It’s not really about the physical body; it really becomes the apparatus that carries and moves the work. I don’t really consider the body as much; I look at it as a tool.

I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I’m concerned I’m actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I’m a man.

I think it’s an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.