Nick Cave: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Thrown into a dungeon,
Bread and water was my portion,
Faith - my only weapon,
To rest the devil's legion.
The speak-hole would slide open,
A viper's voice would pleade,
A voice think with innuendo,
Syphillis and greed.”

Nick Cave

Song lyrics, Tender Prey (1988), Mercy

Faith , Thinking , Water

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

Nick Cave

Politics, society and humanity

Thinking

“Oh! God! Please let me die beneath her fists!”

Nick Cave

Song lyrics, Prayers on Fire (1981), Zoo-Music Girl

God

“O You kings of halls and ends of halls,
You will die within these walls,
And I'll go, all down the row,
Knockin' on Joe.”

Nick Cave

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

“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.”

Nick Cave

Song lyrics, Junkyard (1982), She's Hit

Daughters

“O the same God that abandon'd her,
Has in turn abandon'd me,
Deep in the Desert of Despair,
I wait at the Well of Misery.”

Nick Cave

Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), Well of Misery

God , Waiting , Despair

“Looka yonder! Looka yonder! A big black cloud come!”

Nick Cave

Song lyrics, The Firstborn Is Dead (1985), Tupelo

“I am the king! I am the king! I am the king!
One dead marine through the hatch,
Scratch and scrape this heavenly body,
Every inch of winning skin,
Honey Honey Honey Honey Honey, come and kiss me-e-e-e-e-e!”

Nick Cave

Song lyrics, Junkyard (1982), Junkyard

Kiss , Dead

“Another ship ready to dock… the rigging comes loose… like Jennifer's Veil.”

Nick Cave

Song lyrics, Mutiny (1993), Jennifer's Veil

“The Captain's fore-arm like buncht-up rope,
With Anita wrigglin' free onto skull n' dagger,
And a portrait of Christ, nailed to an anchor,
Etched into the upper…”

Nick Cave

Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), Cabin Fever!

Christ

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

Nick Cave book King Ink

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

Life

“If you're involved with imagination and the creative process, it's not such a difficult thing to believe in a God. But I'm not involved in any religions, and I've never intended to make religious records or records that preach some kind of point of view.”

Nick Cave

"Interview with Nick Cave" http://www.musicomh.com/music/features/nick-cave_0308.htm, musicOMH (March, 2008)
God and religion

God , Religion , Imagination

“My body is a monster driven insane,
My heart is a fish toasted in flames.”

Nick Cave

Song lyrics, Prayers on Fire (1981), Zoo-Music Girl

Fish , Heart

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

Nick Cave

Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), A Box for Black Paul

Tear

“The woods eats the woman and dumps her honey-body in the mud,
Her dress floats down the well and it assumes the shape of the body of a little girl,
Yeah, I recognize that girl,
She stumbled in some time last loneliness,
But I could not stand to touch her now,
My one and only onlyness.”

Nick Cave

Song lyrics, The Bad Seed EP (1993), Deep in the Woods

Girl , Time , Loneliness

“Here comes the Judgement train! Git on board!”

Nick Cave

Song lyrics, The Firstborn Is Dead (1985), Blind Lemon Jefferson

Training

“Rats in paradise! Rats in paradise!”

Nick Cave

Song lyrics, Mutiny (1993), Mutiny in Heaven

“In the days of madness, my brother, my sister,
When you're dragged toward the Hell-mouth,
You will beg for the end, but there ain't gonna be one, friend,
For the grave will spew you out! It will spew you out!”

Nick Cave

Song lyrics, Tender Prey (1988), City of Refuge

Hell , Sister , Madness

“King Ink feels like a bug,
Swimming in a soup-bowl.”

Nick Cave book King Ink

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

Feeling

“The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas. So that if you mention God, or a belief in God, in England, it's almost automatically associated with that kind of thinking. Religion's gotten a really bad name.”

Nick Cave

"The resurrection of Nick Cave" http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/feature/2004/11/18/cave/index2.html, Salon (November 18, 2004)
God and religion

God , Religion , Thinking