Nick Cave World Quotations

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

I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.

I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.

My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.

The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.

When you've been initiated, you can stand in the world differently. And I think it is up to all of us, we can have cheerleaders, we can have supporters, but it comes down to us as individuals, how do we now proceed? Do we have the tools to proceed?

I just found this world a hard place to be good in,’ says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still.

Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder.

I'm always sort of looking for projects that I can sort of put out into the world, into the public sphere, and to somehow cause an effect. I want to be able to create projects that sort of are going to make people think and think in this sort of magical, sort of fantastical way.

I love America. I really do. It's by far the place I like visiting out of anywhere in the world. I get a palpable sense of excitement when the plane's landing. It's a cliché, but there's still an incredible energy about New York in particular.

That's what I like about watching a movie: you enter an imagined world that's more interesting, more engaging than your own. Or less painful than your own.