There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.
From Nick Cave
I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.
Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.
I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning.
I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.
I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.
People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
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.
One of my big fears is drying up, and the more I create, the more I feel myself shrinking beneath the backlog of work I've done.
People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.
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