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.
From Nick Cave
The idea of acting is something that absolutely repulses me. I just can't do it. I'm terrible at it. I get roped into films every now and then, and it's always a disaster.
Most of my ideals and stuff really come from my mother.
You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.
I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.
I'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human being' not a 'human doing', but I'm a human doing, very much so.
The last thing I ever wanted to get involved with is Hollywood. The way it works is that people get an idea you could possibly do something, but there's a one-in-a-hundred chance that it could get made.
When I'm singing 'Deanna,' for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.
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