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„It's a wonderful life if you can find it.“

—  Nick Cave

Quelle: Complete Lyrics

„Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.“

—  Nick Cave

„I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.“

—  Nick Cave

„But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals
Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten…“

—  Nick Cave

„And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me“

—  Nick Cave

„I look at you and you look at me and
deep in our hearts know it

That you weren't much of a muse,
but then I weren't much of a poet“

—  Nick Cave

„People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.“

—  Nick Cave

„Samuel: What's a misanthrope?
Two Bob: A misanthrope is a bugger who hates every other bugger.
Samuel: Are we misanthropes?
Arthur: Lord no! We're family.“

—  Nick Cave

„If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!“

—  Nick Cave

„And I kissed away a thousand tears
My lady of the Various Sorrows
Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen
Some kept safe for tomorrow.“

—  Nick Cave

„My baby is alright,
She doesn't mind a bit of dirt,
She says 'Horror vampire bat bite, sex vampire, how I wish those bats would bite',
Woooooah! Bite! Bite! Release the bats!“

—  Nick Cave

Song lyrics, Junkyard (1982), Release the Bats

„A thousand Marys lured me,
To feathered beds and fields of glover,
Bird with crooked wing cast,
Its wicked shadow over,
A bauble moon did mock,
And trinket stars did smile,
Your funeral, my trial.“

—  Nick Cave

Song lyrics, Your Funeral… My Trial (1986), Your Funeral… My Trial

„Well, ah tied on, percht on mah bed ah was,
Sticken' a needle in mah arm, Ah tied off,
Fucken wings burst out mah back!“

—  Nick Cave

Song lyrics, Mutiny (1993), Mutiny in Heaven

„Ah read her diary on her sheets,
Scrutinizin' every lil' piece of dirt,
Tore out a page'n'stufft it inside my shirt.
Fled outa the window,
And shinning it down the vine,
Outa her night-mare, and back into mine.“

—  Nick Cave

Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), From Her to Eternity

„The boy watches his father cross the road and thinks there is something about the way his dad moves through the world that is truly impressive. Cars screech to a halt, drives shake their fists and stick their heads out the windows and curse and blow their horns and Bunny walks on as if radiating some super-human force field, like he has walked off the pages of a comic book. The world can't touch him. He seems to be the grand generator of some hyper-powerful electricity.“

—  Nick Cave, buch The Death of Bunny Munro

The Death of Bunny Munro (2009)
Books

„Along crags and sunless cracks I go,
Up rib of rock, down spine of stone,
I dare not slumber where the right winds whistle,
Lest her creeping-soul clutch this heart of thistle.“

—  Nick Cave

Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), Well of Misery

„I am the king! I am the king! I am the king!
One dead marine through the hatch,
Scratch and scrape this heavenly body,
Every inch of winning skin,
Honey Honey Honey Honey Honey, come and kiss me-e-e-e-e-e!“

—  Nick Cave

Song lyrics, Junkyard (1982), Junkyard

„My social conscience is fairly limited in a lot of ways; there's not much I'm angry about that doesn't affect me quite directly. But the prison system- not particularly capital punishment- but the penal system as it is, and the whole apparatus of judgement, people deciding on other people's fates… that does irritate, and upset me quite a lot. What angers me about the system goes beyond the unreliability of "proof"… it's that the way criminals are dealt with has nothing to do with rehabilitation and readjusting people who've stepped outside society's norms. The same goes for mental institutions and so forth. But it's also the very idea of someone being judged "criminal" or "insane" because they're unable to fit into what a corrupt society considers "social" or "sociable."“

—  Nick Cave

Politics, society and humanity

„When ya done ransackin' his room,
Grabbin' any-damn-thing that shines,
Throw the scraps down on the street,
Like all his books and his notes.
All his books and his notes and all the junk that he wrote,
The whole fucken lot goes right up in smoke.“

—  Nick Cave

Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), A Box for Black Paul