Nick Cave Quotes

I've forgotten what it feels like to be in one place for more than a day... But we signed up for this. This is our dream. We sat down and said this is what we want to do, play music and touring.

Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol stations.

In the winter, I'm always in Europe. July and September are New Zealand and Chile camps. I'm always on the road.

I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

My first full year of touring, I did 300 days on the road. That was not including the travel time or publicity or anything else - that was just dates. I was home probably less than 50 days that year.

I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at removing my shoes so as to have the least amount of foot surface area touching an airport floor.

There's other things I'd like to do. I probably won't tour for a very, very long time. It's something that you feel inside and that's the way I've been looking at everything.

I basically say I'm on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next.

I'm basically always on tour.

Travelling expands the mind rarely.

Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band; the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.

Being on the move all the time is draining, but the rewards make up for it.

Touring is starting to feel more like home than home does.

I've spent my whole life in airports. I don't come home but every two and a half months, which is pretty crazy.

I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.

I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it.

I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.

Schlepping around from city to city is nothing I want to do.

As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

I get no satisfaction just showing myself in every corner of the world every week.

I've been traded a couple times, but I've enjoyed the experience of new cities and cultures and all types of things.