monologue in 20,000 Days on Earth
Music
Nick Cave: Zitate auf Englisch
Song lyrics, Mutiny (1993), Mutiny in Heaven
Song lyrics, Prayers on Fire (1981), Nick the Stripper
Song lyrics, The Bad Seed EP (1993), Wild World
“From the words and the thickets,
Come the ghosts of his victims,
'We love you!'
'Ah love you!”
This will not hurt a bit.
Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), A Box for Black Paul
“Death favours those that favour death.”
Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), A Box for Black Paul
Song lyrics, Your Funeral… My Trial (1986), The Carny
The Daily Telegraph (Novevember 20, 1997)
God and religion
Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), Saint Huck
“I took her from rags right through to stitches,
Oh baby, tonight we sleep in separate ditches.”
Song lyrics, The Bad Seed EP (1993), Deep in the Woods
“I tried to kill it in my bed,
I gagged it with a pillow,
But awoke the nuns inside my head.”
Song lyrics, Prayers on Fire (1981), Just You and Me
Song lyrics, Your Funeral… My Trial (1986), Your Funeral… My Trial
Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), Well of Misery
Song lyrics, Tender Prey (1988), The Mercy Seat
Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, by Simon Reynolds (1988)
Politics, society and humanity
Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, by Simon Reynolds (1988)
Love and relationships
Song lyrics, Tender Prey (1988), The Mercy Seat
Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), From Her to Eternity
Song lyrics, Tender Prey (1988), Mercy
“Blind Lemon Jefferson is a-comin',
Tap tap tappin', with his cane.”
Song lyrics, The Firstborn Is Dead (1985), Blind Lemon Jefferson
Song lyrics, Tender Prey (1988), New Morning
“God is in everything whether I’m mentioning him or not.”
Cave's response to an interviewer calling Grinderman a "secular record"
"The Daily Grind" http://www.harpmagazine.com/articles/detail.cfm?article_id=5536, HARP Magazine (May, 2007)
God and religion
“Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously.”
The Daily Telegraph (November 20, 1997)
Love and relationships
"Interview with Old Nick" http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/feb/23/popandrock.features, The Guardian (February 23, 2008)
God and religion
Song lyrics, The Firstborn Is Dead (1985), Black Crow King
“Do I personally believe in a personal God? No.”
Interview in the Guardian in 2009. Nick Cave on the Death of Bunny Munroe. The Guardian Books Podcast, September 11, 2009. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2009/sep/10/nick-cave-bunny-munro
God and religion