Nick Cave Quotes & Sayings (Page 13)

“The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When you're talking about rock n' roll, myth-making is what it's all about.”

“You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.”

“The last thing I ever wanted to get involved with is Hollywood. The way it works is that people get an idea you could possibly do something, but there's a one-in-a-hundred chance that it could get made.”

“With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on.”

“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.”

“I've watched 'Oprah Winfrey.' And I'm proud. I don't care what anybody says! I don't know whether I've watched it. I've been in the room while it's been on.”

“Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I see that it's too long, I'll start cutting.”