Nick Cave quote: "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."

Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing th...
NICK CAVE

The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for t...
NICK CAVE

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information a...
NICK CAVE

Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the ...
NICK CAVE

I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I...
NICK CAVE

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.
NICK CAVE

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.
NICK CAVE

I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked o...
NICK CAVE

I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the 'Johnny Cash Show' on television i...
NICK CAVE

I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning.
NICK CAVE

After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom yo...
NICK CAVE

There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem ...
NICK CAVE

'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.
NICK CAVE

Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeo...
NICK CAVE

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always b...
NICK CAVE

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.
NICK CAVE

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
NICK CAVE

Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.
NICK CAVE

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.
NICK CAVE

I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have ...
NICK CAVE

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
NICK CAVE

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to preven...
NICK CAVE

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense o...
NICK CAVE

Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts ...
NICK CAVE

The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous...
NICK CAVE

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

Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I g...
NICK CAVE

People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow let...
NICK CAVE

I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.
NICK CAVE

Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people thin...
NICK CAVE

I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I...
NICK CAVE

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't ha...
NICK CAVE

The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into...
NICK CAVE

My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of...
NICK CAVE

The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations...
NICK CAVE

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life...
NICK CAVE

The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the ang...
NICK CAVE

There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I ca...
NICK CAVE

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the femin...
NICK CAVE

As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in ...
NICK CAVE

One of my big fears is drying up, and the more I create, the more I feel myself shrinking beneath th...
NICK CAVE

Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.
NICK CAVE

Early on I realized when you write a song about someone, it flatters them on some level, and gives y...
NICK CAVE

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
NICK CAVE

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious...
NICK CAVE

You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.
NICK CAVE

People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it'...
NICK CAVE

I always heard it musically, and I guess it's written rhythmically as well,
NICK CAVE

It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They bel...
NICK CAVE

I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reachi...
NICK CAVE

No, I wouldn't direct a movie, no. I couldn't. I don't have the patience for it, I don&#...
NICK CAVE

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

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind...
NICK CAVE

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and i...
NICK CAVE

I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same b...
NICK CAVE

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful complimen...
NICK CAVE

I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from aban...
NICK CAVE

This one's got a story rather than being a series of cool vignettes.
NICK CAVE

I always heard it musically, and I guess it's written rhythmically as well ... It's very similar to ...
NICK CAVE

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense o...
NICK CAVE

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pur...
NICK CAVE

[With a large Aboriginal contingent that proves central to the plot, The Proposition certainly takes...
NICK CAVE

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.
NICK CAVE

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutiona...
NICK CAVE

Our Easters were elaborate productions with these big Easter Egg hunts out in the woods, and it was ...
NICK CAVE

At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I...
NICK CAVE

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.
NICK CAVE

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and i...
NICK CAVE

[Being of a certain age made things clearer.] I'm 48, that's helped enormously, ... I have a much fu...
NICK CAVE

Aw, look, I don't know, ... I think I'd rather him do that than me.
NICK CAVE

In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, ...
NICK CAVE

Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild W...
NICK CAVE

The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period...
NICK CAVE

With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of...
NICK CAVE

I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a...
NICK CAVE

I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always th...
NICK CAVE

Vagina man,’ said Bunny, and his two colleagues went quiet and nodded in silent agreement.
NICK CAVE

A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yours...
NICK CAVE

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable que...
NICK CAVE

If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, ...
NICK CAVE

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occup...
NICK CAVE

I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sah...
NICK CAVE

Memory is imagined; it is not real. Don't be ashamed of its need to create; it is the loveliest part...
NICK CAVE

I can understand the dilemma of growing up in a bubble, and then not knowing what to do when unemplo...
JESSIE CAVE

Children who have been in work for a long time suddenly get a thud down to earth once the cuteness f...
JESSIE CAVE

Having done film, TV and theatre, the nicest final bit of the jigsaw is to do live comedy, because y...
JESSIE CAVE

Given this, it's more important than ever that the General Assembly move forward to correct a long o...
STAN CAVE

Pro jednoduché hledání je svitkový formát zbytečně složitý a nikdo z dnešních vědců nem...
RODERICK CAVE

We are starting on a journey that unlocks multi-billion dollar potential in this partnership.
MIKE CAVE

We have to provide extensive data to show that the natural enemy will be of no harm to the environme...
RONALD CAVE

Because if we were all the same, then we would all share the same weaknesses.
NICK

Being scared is simply fear of incompetence.
NICK

One, two, three, Im gon be crazy and free.
NICK

I been thinken'. when life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade!! get mad! I dont want your damn le...
CAVE JOHNSON PORTAL 2

My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do.
NICK CANNON

It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form o...
NICK CANNON

The people who truly love me and loved me before all of this stuff. You can't ever leave them be...
NICK CANNON

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of eve...
NICK CANNON

Real men change diapers!
NICK CANNON

Most aspiring child actors or child stars have a passion for it. But as easy as it is for me to say ...
NICK CANNON

I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in ...
NICK CANNON

I always say that candy is the perfect studio food - it keeps your energy going.
NICK CANNON

Just speak yourself into existence. Whatever you want, speak it. You can see it.
NICK CANNON

Hunger is a deep concern of mine, and I feel that no one should go without food in this world as lon...
NICK CANNON

You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dream...
NICK CANNON

I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.
NICK CANNON

Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese.
NICK CANNON

A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to ...
NICK CANNON

One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the...
NICK CANNON

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of...
NICK CANNON

I think I'm actually built for fatherhood. I love to have a good time and play, but at the same ...
NICK CANNON

Mariah is a beautiful and talented person, and I've had a crush on her for as long as I can reme...
NICK CANNON

I think my kids give mommy more attention than they give me.
NICK CANNON

People think that as a celebrity, you have to have this sort of mystique about you, but I'm prob...
NICK CANNON

The world of music is changing so dramatically every day, the way people hear music. It's differ...
NICK JONAS

You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing ...
NICK NOLTE

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Eu...
NICK CLEGG

Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspec...
NICK CLEGG

I started racing myself and once you get bitten by that bug you really are hooked.
NICK MASON

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of the...
NICK DAVIES

To me, a forever love is a bond that can't be broken.
NICK CANNON

I've just been away for a week, and I dropped my BlackBerry in the sea while I was messing aroun...
NICK CLEGG

In high school, I went to a place called the Mountain School. It's on a farm in Vermont, and I r...
NICK KROLL

I grew up here in New York City and New Jersey, performing on Broadway shows, surrounded by some of ...
NICK JONAS

I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at th...
NICK CLEGG

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.
NICK CARTER

Fantasy football has changed how I watch football because now every game is interesting start to fin...
NICK KROLL

Things that burn very brightly, we wonder how long they can keep burning.
NICK WOODMAN

I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on...
NICK CLEGG

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
NICK RICHARDSON

People who are feeling bullied and people who feel like outsiders should talk to their parents and g...
NICK JONAS

Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me... And when you are a young man, you don't get...
NICK CLEGG

The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor.
NICK HANAUER

I usually get down with a little Violent Femmes in the summer. You know, 'Blister In The Sun....
NICK ROBINSON

Dad was a difference maker. He reached out to people. He took them by the awe and wonder we feel ove...
NICK SAGAN

I do public appearances. I'm bluff, hearty, goofy. I wear loud clothes, and I read the funny bit...
NICK HARKAWAY

When it blows here, even the seagulls walk.
NICK FALDO

The U.S. has taken an active role in wars from Libya to the Central African Republic, sent special o...
NICK TURSE

At training, I consider myself a bit of a morale booster. I take a pack of lollies just to boost the...
NICK CUMMINS

I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this en...
NICK HARKAWAY

I see now that dismissing YA books because you’re not a young adult is a little bit like refusing ...
NICK HORNBY

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.
NICK HERTL

You know, even working actors can end up having a lot of spare time. And you can either go sit at th...
NICK OFFERMAN

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
NICK GORSKI

You want to be appreciated for all your work as opposed to one performance, but I'll always be &...
NICK MORAN

I wish I was a cool guy and could drink coffee black, but I put almond milk and raw cane sugar in it...
NICK KROLL

Lemons. He liked lemons. They made you make funny faces when you bit them, and a very, very long way...
NICK HARKAWAY

So, your kids must love the iPad?” I asked Mr. [Steve] Jobs, trying to change the subject. The com...
NICK BILTON

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree viole...
NICK HORNBY

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that...
NICK HORNBY

Over the years I've come to appreciate how animals enter our lives prepared to teach and far from be...
NICK TROUT

It may be a cat, a bird, a ferret, or a guinea pig, but the chances are high that when someone close...
NICK TROUT

People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what ...
NICK HARKAWAY

As I live life, I believe that the highest value I, and anyone who is ready, able and willing, is to...
NICK CATRICALA

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to wher...
NICK HORNBY

my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.
NICK HORNBY

The word is control. That's my ultimate -- to have control.
NICK FALDO

The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy.
NICK NUESSLE

With rivers as with good friends, you always feel better for a few hours in their presence; you alwa...
NICK LYONS

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.
NICK NOLTE

Magic isn't done; it's only just begun!
NICK NEWBERRY

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our dispos...
NICK HORNBY

If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's...
NICK DIPAOLO

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.
NICK DIAMOS

Modernism isn't a design ethos any more, it's an economy of scale, and a marketing tool to sell the ...
NICK HARKAWAY

A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without a...
NICK HARKAWAY

Keeping people fired up starts with having a really clear vision for what the company is aiming to d...
NICK WOODMAN

We were in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. It's a nice town, but it's aggressively quaint. They've ...
NICK ROBINSON

I'm developing more stuff in my voice, more Nick Swardson. It's me as myself in a sense and ...
NICK SWARDSON

I think our slow, humble beginnings in surf shops, ski shops, bike shops, and motorcycle shops have ...
NICK WOODMAN

In ancient Greece, Socrates reportedly didn't fancy a literate society. He felt that people woul...
NICK HARKAWAY

I wrote the first draft of 'Tigerman' while my wife was pregnant - needless to say, I was re...
NICK HARKAWAY

Our actions in the Middle East over the last 15 years have already guaranteed radical Muslims quite ...
NICK CLOONEY

One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing...
NICK CLOONEY

Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be pas...
NICK BOSTROM

If you talk to most ambitious people, people who are high achievers, they're rarely at peace wit...
NICK KROLL

I was inspired by how Red Bull isn't about the drink; it isn't about the product or the can....
NICK WOODMAN

I just work - however people feel about it, I mean, at the end of the day, if I'm waiting for ac...
NICK CANNON

Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you're in and ...
NICK CANNON

My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that's the...
NICK JONAS

The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule.
NICK JOHNSON

Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown ...
NICK NOLTE

I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped fr...
NICK CLEGG

Despite global economic concerns, other nations are continuing to push forward and invest in their s...
NICK LAMPSON

As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud...
NICK LAMPSON

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritar...
NICK LAMPSON

More needs to be done to take the fight to the enemy and secure our borders against the terrorist th...
NICK LAMPSON

The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.
NICK LAMPSON

Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like Presi...
NICK LAMPSON

With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past thr...
NICK LAMPSON

While we face economic obstacles that challenge every decision made in Washington, decisions made me...
NICK LAMPSON

Any veteran can tell you it is already hard enough to see a doctor down at the VA and get the health...
NICK LAMPSON

Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once a...
NICK LAMPSON

Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge ...
NICK LAMPSON

The local communities, through their leaders, were able to build a communications network that allow...
NICK LAMPSON

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no ...
NICK LAMPSON

Congress should stop treating veterans like they're asking for a hand out when it comes to the b...
NICK LAMPSON

One of the most important accomplishments of the Caucus is raising awareness with law enforcement an...
NICK LAMPSON

I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that e...
NICK LAMPSON

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign do...
NICK LAMPSON

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.

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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.

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