“I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were Ameri...” — Nick Cave Quote

“I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.”

“I've always felt like an imposter, in the whole, as a musician.”

“If beautiful movies can influence you to go out and hug your children, then we have to be honest and say that other movies can inspire you to do bad things.”

“An Australian prime minister once said that his job was the second most important job in the country - behind being captain of the cricket team. It's not a job you take on lightly.”

“Funny thing about the volatile and biased French crowds. While they'd prefer to be cheering a countryman and giving his foreign opponent merry hell, if there was no Frenchman in the game, they'd always support a Continental player over an Englishman, an American, or an Australian.”

“I like to say that I do covers of my own songs. And I have about a dozen bands all over the world. That's no exaggeration. I have a South African band, an Australian band, Swedish bands, English bands, American bands. They're all notable musicians, too.”