Top 131 Quotes by Nick Cave

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

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.

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.

I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.

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

When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like.

I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.

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