Nick Cave

The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.

I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.

People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down.

The only person who can say they're happy getting old is someone who isn't actually old yet. Every day, I get less and less happy about that idea.

I've always felt like an imposter, in the whole, as a musician.

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

I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.

Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.

I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.

I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.

Early on I realized when you write a song about someone, it flatters them on some level, and gives you a lot of room to move within a relationship. A song can kind of get the girl, for sure.