Nick Cave: Quotes about God

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“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.”

Given during a lecture at the Vienna Poetry Festival (1998)
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“Of course I doubt [the existence of God], I would distrust anybody who didn't doubt. But I'm a believer. I have an understanding and belief in the divinity of things. It seems to me that people look at God in the wrong way. They think that God is there to serve them, but it's the other way around. God isn't some kind of cosmic bell-boy to be called upon to sort things out for us. It's important for us to realise that God has given us the potential to sort things out on our own.”

Observer (May, 1998)
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“Although I've never been an atheist, there are periods when I struggled with the whole thing. As someone who uses words, you need to able to justify your belief with language, I'd have arguments and the atheist always won because he'd go back to logic. Belief in God is illogical, it's absurd. There's no debate. I feel it intuitively, it comes from the heart, a magical place. But I still I fluctuate from day to day. Sometimes I feel very close to the notion of God, other times I don't. I used to see that as a failure. Now I see it as a strength, especially compared to the more fanatical notions of what God is. I think doubt is an essential part of belief.”

Mojo (January, 2005)
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“My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.”

The Daily Telegraph (Novevember 20, 1997)
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“In heaven His throne is made of gold,
Where the ark of His testament is stowed,
A throne from which I'm told all history does unfold,
Down here it's made of wood and wire,
And my body is on fire,
And God is never far away.”

Song lyrics, Tender Prey (1988), The Mercy Seat

“God is in everything whether I’m mentioning him or not.”

Cave's response to an interviewer calling Grinderman a "secular record" <br class="br"> "The Daily Grind" http://www.harpmagazine.com/articles/detail.cfm?article_id=5536, HARP Magazine (May, 2007) <br class="br">God and religion

“The brutality of the Old Testament inspired me, the stories and grand gestures. I wrote that stuff up and it influenced the way I saw the world. What I'm trying to say is I didn't walk around in a rage thinking God is a hateful god. I was influenced by looking at the Bible, and it suited me in my life vision at the time to see things in that way. …. After a while I started to feel a little kinder and warmer to the world, and at the same time started to read the New Testament.”

"Interview with Old Nick" http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/feb/23/popandrock.features, The Guardian (February 23, 2008) <br class="br">God and religion

“Do I personally believe in a personal God? No.”

Interview in the Guardian in 2009. Nick Cave on the Death of Bunny Munroe. The Guardian Books Podcast, September 11, 2009. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2009/sep/10/nick-cave-bunny-munro <br class="br">God and religion