Nick Cave Quotes

I used to always make art for girls. That was the thing I did for girls to like me. I did portraits, drawings, letters that formed outlines of significant things in our relationship. Art. I just used art in general. It usually worked.

When I write a song, I want to write something that is really catchy and says something that might actually touch somebody.

The women I'm attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

I just love storytelling. I write music to tell stories. So when I'm done writing a song, I take it and go, 'Okay. How can I interpret these lyrics differently?' I love taking lyrics that were so close to me at a certain point in my life and then revamping them. I always want to take things to the next level.

Without romance, films will be boring. I doubt if people now understand romance, though they may claim it otherwise. I am very romantic in real life.

I've never grown into loving someone. It's, like, either right away or slowly sinks in.

Compatibility is weird. Love is confusing. Love is one wild beast.

Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

I think, for a love story, the most important element is the music, since you don't have action sequences or item numbers. It really draws in the audience and adds to at least 70 percent of the opening of the movie.

So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you're doing something right.

I love acting, but music is so much more rewarding because it's more personal.

I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.

I never analyze why I was with one woman instead of another.

My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.

You throw the kitchen sink at your early books. You put everything in there. It's like when you meet a new girlfriend or boyfriend, you tell them all your best stories. By the time you have been married for 10 years, they are crying, 'Shut up!'

I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful.

I'm touched by Jon Hendricks. I want some of my music to reflect that. And when I write, you're going to hear it.

I love writing songs and being a musician, but you can't really buy the feeling of connecting with people.

Every movie is a love story.

With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is mine. I wrote this, I made this, I'm performing this. This is how I'm presenting it to you.' There's something really scary about that, but there's also something next-worldly about it, too.

Humor in a relationship is so important. Many women will say that. Some say, 'If they can make you laugh, it's the sexiest thing on earth.'