Top 131 Quotes by Nick Cave

I'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human being' not a 'human doing', but I'm a human doing, very much so.

Look, when I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say.

If beautiful movies can influence you to go out and hug your children, then we have to be honest and say that other movies can inspire you to do bad things.

You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.

The guitar is something you kind of embrace, and the piano is something you kind of - when you play it, you sort of push it away. It feels very different.

I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

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.

Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.

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