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“Express thyself! Say something loudly! Aaaaaaah!
What's in that room, Sonny?”

Nick Cave book King Ink

Song lyrics, Prayers on Fire (1981), King Ink

“And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me”

Nick Cave

“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 penal system as it is, and the whole apparatus of judgement, people deciding on other people's fates… that does irritate, and upset me quite a lot. What angers me about the system goes beyond the unreliability of "proof"… it's that the way criminals are dealt with has nothing to do with rehabilitation and readjusting people who've stepped outside society's norms. The same goes for mental institutions and so forth. But it's also the very idea of someone being judged "criminal" or "insane" because they're unable to fit into what a corrupt society considers "social" or "sociable."”

Nick Cave

Politics, society and humanity

“It's a wonderful life if you can find it.”

Nick Cave

Source: Complete Lyrics

“I just found this world a hard place to be good in,’ says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still.”

Nick Cave book The Death of Bunny Munro

Source: The Death of Bunny Munro

“I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.”

Nick Cave

“I look at you and you look at me and
deep in our hearts know it

That you weren't much of a muse,
but then I weren't much of a poet”

Nick Cave

“Samuel: What's a misanthrope?
Two Bob: A misanthrope is a bugger who hates every other bugger.
Samuel: Are we misanthropes?
Arthur: Lord no! We're family.”

Nick Cave

“If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!”

Nick Cave

“And I kissed away a thousand tears
My lady of the Various Sorrows
Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen
Some kept safe for tomorrow.”

Nick Cave

“If this is heaven ahm bailin' out!”

Nick Cave

Song lyrics, Mutiny (1993), Mutiny in Heaven

“O come to me!, O come to me!' is what the dirty city say to Huck.”

Nick Cave

Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), Saint Huck

“Fingers down the throat of love! Love! Love!”

Nick Cave

Song lyrics, The Bad Seed EP (1993), Fears of Gun

“O Warden, I surender to you,
Your fists cain't hurt me anymore,
You know, these hands will never wash,
These dirty Death Row floors.”

Nick Cave

Song lyrics, The Firstborn Is Dead (1985), Knockin' on Joe

“God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowelless being of the Testaments - the vehement glorymonger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice - the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants.”

Nick Cave

Euchrid Eucrow in Cave's novel And the Ass Saw the Angel (1988)
God and religion

“The boy watches his father cross the road and thinks there is something about the way his dad moves through the world that is truly impressive. Cars screech to a halt, drives shake their fists and stick their heads out the windows and curse and blow their horns and Bunny walks on as if radiating some super-human force field, like he has walked off the pages of a comic book. The world can't touch him. He seems to be the grand generator of some hyper-powerful electricity.”

Nick Cave book The Death of Bunny Munro

The Death of Bunny Munro (2009)
Books

“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”

Nick Cave

Song lyrics, Tender Prey (1988), Up Jumped the Devil