“The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's t...” — Nick Cave Quote

“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. What do I write about? I never know.”

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

“The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.”

“Politics separate men by bringing them together only superficially. Art and culture unite us in a common anguish that is our only possible fraternity, that of our existential and metaphysical community.”

“The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.”

“I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.”