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Australian musician and singer

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Nick Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian musician, songwriter, poet, author and actor.

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Birth Name: Nicholas Edward Cave

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I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

I tried to kill it in my bed,
I gagged it with a pillow,
But awoke the nuns inside my head.

My oh My,what a wretched Life.
I was born on the day that my poor mama died.
I was cut from Her belly with a stanley knife.
My daddy did a jig with the drunk midwife

Ah've cried one thousand tears, it's true.

Here comes the Judgement train! Git on board!

Rather than feel impotent and useless, you must come to terms with the fact that as a human being you are infinitely powerful, and take responsibility for this tremendous power. Even our smallest actions have potential for great change, positively or negatively, and the way in which we all conduct ourselves within the world means something. You are anything but impotent, you are, in fact, exquisitely and frighteningly dynamic, as are we all, and with all respect you have an obligation to stand up and take responsibility for that potential. It is your most ordinary and urgent duty.

Pilgrim gets 1 hacked daughter,
And all we get are 40 hack reporters,
Uptown 100 skirts are bleeding,
And Mr. Evangilist says She's hit, ev'ry little bit.

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

Death favours those that favour death.

I hear stories from the chamber,
How Christ was born into a manger,
And like some ragged stranger died up on the cross,
And might I say it seems to fitting in its way,
He was a carpenter by trade,
Or at least that's what I'm told.

Here is the hammer, that build the scaffold, and built the box...

Well, ah tied on, percht on mah bed ah was,
Sticken' a needle in mah arm, Ah tied off,
Fucken wings burst out mah back!

Blind Lemon Jefferson is a-comin', Tap tap tappin', with his cane.

O you recall the song ya used to sing-a-long,
Shifting the river-trade on that ol' steamer,
Life is but a dream!

And as the company passed from the valley, into a higher ground,
The rain beat on the ridge and on the meadow, and on the mound, Until nothing was left, nothing at all except the body of Sorrow,
That rose in time, to float upon the surface of the eaten soil.