Nick Cave
Nick Cave
Nicholas Edward "Nick" Caveis an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional film actor. He is best known as the frontman of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1983, a group known for its diverse output and ever-evolving line-up. Prior to this, he fronted the Birthday Party, one of the most extreme and confrontational post-punk bands of the early 1980s. In 2006, he formed the garage rock band Grinderman, releasing its debut album the following year...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth22 September 1957
CountryAustralia
I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.
You don't meet a lot of people that you really like. I don't anyway.
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.
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.
No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.
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.
Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it
I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?
After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time.
I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely.
My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.
I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.
Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine!