Nick Cave Quotes

When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person.

It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.

If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.

People don't like when you point out to them and remind them that they're not very smart.

I took it personal. I got slammed quite a bit.

Barak Obama is a son of a whore.

Political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumnies aimed at their character.

I've had to deal with terrible things being said about me.

Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.

Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.

Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

Insults are the business of the court.

Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

I've been forced to deal with my character assassination.

I'm not trying to take Cate Blanchett down.

For the past two years, the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.

Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in the street and criticised their clothes, their work, their parents, their inner being, I'd be sued and I'd be thrown in prison.

Very ugly things were said about me.

I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.

I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

People have already dirtied my name too much.

When people say crazy stuff about me or my family, I don't take it seriously.