I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden. Nick Cave More Quotes by Nick Cave More Quotes From Nick Cave 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 good-man hate people At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration. Nick Cave focus-and-concentration wisdom art I still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene, which I'm quite happy about to be honest. Nick Cave honest scene feels I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year. Nick Cave balls years thinking You don't meet a lot of people that you really like. I don't anyway. Nick Cave people You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan. Nick Cave cogs plans evil I don't believe in an interventionist God Nick Cave dont-believe believe I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely. Nick Cave strong creative thinking And I wish that I was made of stone So that I would not have to see A beauty impossible to define A beauty impossible to believe A beauty impossible to endure The blood imparted in little sips The smell of you still on my hands As I bring the cup up to my lips No God up in the sky No devil beneath the sea Could do the job that you did, baby Of bringing me to my knees Nick Cave baby jobs believe No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad. Nick Cave sadness sorrow wonder This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, cleverer, or more capable, and he stands there beside him with a sense of pride - he's my dad - and he also, of course, stands beside him because he has nowhere else to go. Nick Cave dad pride thinking There's that kind of song, "Whoah baby, I love you," which doesn't have a visual element, but a very strong emotional element, and these are the great songs to me - those ones that you put them on and they just make you feel great, or whatever. Nick Cave strong song baby I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god. Nick Cave religious christian believe To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting. Nick Cave difficult hatred years I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence. Nick Cave numbness violence thinking Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that. Nick Cave wedding important self Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children. Nick Cave library community children The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness. Nick Cave insane song love-is Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder. Nick Cave tears sorrow world I just found this world a hard place to be good in,’ says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still. Nick Cave bunnies eye world
