Nick Cave Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Writing, Three

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

  Nick Cave

  Believe, Writing, Creative

• Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

  Nick Cave

  Running, Writing, Musician

• The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Writing, Problem

  "Nick Cave is not in the business of telling people what to do". Interview with Christopher Kompanek, music.avclub.com. April 8, 2013.

• I feel very much a part of what I'm writing about, and I'm writing about things that concern me on a daily basis. I'm not really interested in writing musical diaries, if you know what I mean.

  Nick Cave

  Mean, Writing, Musical

  Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. March 31, 2008.

• I've always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Writing, Done

• You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.

  Nick Cave

  Writing, Scene

  "Nick Cave: 'Lawless is not so much a true story as a true myth'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2012.

• The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Writing, Ideas

• When I start writing songs, and they come easily, I'm always very suspicious. That usually means they're reminding me of something I've already done before. When the songs become unsettling, and I feel anxious about what I'm doing, that usually means it's going to be more interesting later on when we actually record the stuff.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Writing, Mean

  "Nick Cave on the Evolution of His Music". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 28, 2014.

• Anything that I'm doing I'm writing specifically for a particular project.

  Nick Cave

  Writing, Projects, Particular

• The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Writing, Character

• The reason I've gotten into script-writing, which was accidental to begin with, was that I found it was a far more effective medium for violence. Which is something that I'd always written in songs, but the violence always sat strangely within a song. And I was always interested in the way in which you listen to murder ballads and things like that - these weird lines would kind of come out, like, I drug her by the hair or something - that sat weirdly in the song. Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Betrayal, Writing

  "Q&A: Nick Cave and the Golden Reverb of Violence". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. August 29, 2012.

• Some are exploring the world through the subconscious. I've done that on occasions for various reasons, whether it be illness or self abuse, or whatever. Once things start to look grotesque I don't write them or sing them. I couldn't write them - making nightmares into living daylight...The minute it gets dark I shoot back, retreat.

  Nick Cave

  Writing, Dark, Abuse

  Source: thequietus.com

• I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Writing, Doe

• I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable.

  Nick Cave

  Writing, Ideas, Scripts

• Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of different ways people explain that, but, you know, I find that if I sit down and I prepare myself, generally things get done.

  Nick Cave

  Writing, Ideas, People

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

  Nick Cave

  Song, Writing, World

• I write songs in batches and then record them and then can't write again for ages. I try and build one song upon another, they may not obviously look inter-related but often one song acts as a springboard into another.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Writing, Age

  Source: thequietus.com

• I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.

  Nick Cave

  Hate, Writing, Use

• I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.

  Nick Cave

  Writing, Long, Office

  "Nick Cave Sings the Blues". Interview with Brian Orloff, www.rollingstone.com. October 22, 2004.

• I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Writing, Elements

• When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar, they sound convincing. It's important for me to not pursue those ideas, because I've already done them, but to find ideas that are different and feel strange to write and disconcerting to write.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Fall, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

• If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.

  Nick Cave

  Writing, Equations, Knows

  "Nick Cave & Co. open the debate on love, sex, sexism". Billboard Interview, uk.reuters.com. August 20, 2010.

• I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I'm a man.

  Nick Cave

  Writing, Men, Mind

• The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.

  Nick Cave

  Writing, Heart, Air

  Nick Cave (2007). “The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2013”, p.23, Penguin UK

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