Nick Cave Quotes
People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
Quotes to Explore
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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I don't want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative.
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I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.
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I learned about being positive from my parents. They're the most positive people I've ever known.
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to say it's a dream come true doesn't do it justice, because I've never dreamed this big. The film and play stand side by side -- you get the advantage of more intimacy in the film's close-ups, and the advantage of live rock onstage.
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We declare war against socialism, not because it is socialism, but because it has opposed nationalism.... We intend to be an active minority, attract the proletariat away from the official Socialist party. But if the middle class thinks that we are going to be their lightning rods, they are mistaken.
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People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
