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
To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.
What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood.
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.
Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.
You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.
It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.
If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?'
Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that.
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.
Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.
It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say.
I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I'm a man.