Nick Cave Years Quotations

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the 'Johnny Cash Show' on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or 10 years old. At that stage I had really no idea about rock n' roll. I watched him, and from that point I saw that music could be an evil thing - a beautiful, evil thing.

Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain't learned to love me yet?

I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.

To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting.

I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.