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
No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.
You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan.
I am the captain of my pain.
I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.
A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer...
Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
Rock music is the province of the young, and it should be made by young people. I'm not running around in a pair of spandex tights trying to reclaim my youth.
Do I personally believe in a personal God? No.
My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.
The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.
Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.
God is in everything whether I'm mentioning him or not.
If you're involved with imagination and the creative process, it's not such a difficult thing to believe in a God. But I'm not involved in any religions, and I've never intended to make religious records or records that preach some kind of point of view.
Outside the world of politics, one person in the world of the arts I would mention as an influence is Nick Cave, another person who has been around since the late 1970s. He has developed and changed remarkably, whilst remaining true to his vision. He has been a great help to me as well, without his knowing it.