Cynicism and defensiveness are two things constantly levelled at me. Look, I've got time for people, I'm good mannered. I usually find that when you're down, nobody has a bloody minute for you. If I was a nobody, you wouldn't even talk to me. People, in general, don't like you being upfront and civil. They hate you for it. They label you a cynic 'cos you're reasonable.

Nick Cave

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I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

three writing song

We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand, and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you could hold onto that flame, great things could construct around it, that are massive and powerful and world changing, all held up by the tiniest of ideas.

flames powerful hands

I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my... by Nick Cave

I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods.

mood i-can weather

All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of an idea never becomes apparent until you do it.

bad-ideas idle ideas

Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously. by Nick Cave

Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously.

states love-is

Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’r... by Nick Cave

Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it

middle stories knows

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

tolerance inspiration art

Polly Jean, I love you. I love the texture of your skin, the taste of your saliva, the softness of your ears. I love every inch and every part of your entire body. From your toes and the beautifully curved arches of your feet, to the exceptional shade and warmth of your dark hair. I need you in my life, I hope you need me too.

dark love-you hair

It's a wonderful life if you can find it. by Nick Cave

It's a wonderful life if you can find it.

wonderful-life ifs wonderful

Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I'm in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.

office inspiration people

He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in. by Nick Cave

He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.

The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.

air heart writing

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

down-and waiting people

Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to the defiant, dealing in love, war, beauty, children, romance, rejection, Pethedine, poetry, panties, God, Auden, Johnny Cash, cold potatoes, too-much-money, not enough money, writer’s block, flowers, animals and more flowers. But maybe I’m projecting here.

block beautiful children

I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the point.

holes soul heart

In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact.

getting-older impact feelings

I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a goo... by Nick Cave

I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.

bigs fans

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, dar... by Nick Cave

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

darling dine cannibal

You know, an idea is just an idea. There seems to... the kind of epiphanies that you have, like the little sudden bursts of light, they're very small and they're very short and it's the pursuit of the idea that's the important thing. . . . I know a lot of people who have way better ideas than I do that-much more frequently than I do that just can't sit down and actually do it. Ideas are such are a little overrated really; it's the work behind the idea that's the important thing.

light people ideas

Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain't learned... by Nick Cave

Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain't learned to love me yet?

christian baby years