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.
From Nick Cave
Early on I realized when you write a song about someone, it flatters them on some level, and gives you a lot of room to move within a relationship. A song can kind of get the girl, for sure.
I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.
Personally I find the story of Christ incredibly moving.
The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.
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.
When you're making a film, there are so many people involved that you get opinions and notes from people and you don't even know who they are. I find that quite difficult and it wears you down.
I've watched 'Oprah Winfrey.' And I'm proud. I don't care what anybody says! I don't know whether I've watched it. I've been in the room while it's been on.
I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.
At school I was an anti-magnet for women.
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