Nick Cave

"My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God."

"Fingers down the throat of love! Love! Love!"

"Although I've never been an atheist, there are periods when I struggled with the whole thing. As someone who uses words, you need to able to justify your belief with language, I'd have arguments and t…"

"My social conscience is fairly limited in a lot of ways; there's not much I'm angry about that doesn't affect me quite directly. But the prison system- not particularly capital punishment- but the pen…"

"Oh! God! Please let me die beneath her fists!"

"Oh! Yer! What a wonderful life! Fats Domino on the radio!"

"Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously."

"Bunny takes another bite of his Big Mac and knows what everybody who is into this sort of things knows - that with its flaccid bun, its spongy meat, the cheese, the slimy little pickle and, of course,…"