Nick Cave
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"Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave" is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional film actor. He is best known for his musical work with the band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1983, a group known for its eclectic influences and musical styles. Prior to this, he fronted the post-punk group The Birthday Party (band)/The Birthday Party in the early 1980s, which was influenced by blues and free jazz. In 2006, he formed the garage rock band Grinderman, releasing Grinderman (album)/its debut album the following year.

Cave's music is generally characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences, and lyrical obsessions with religion, death, love and violence. In the early 2010s, he was dubbed by the NME as "the grand lord of gothic lushness".

Upon Cave's induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame, ARIA Awards committee chairman Ed St John said: "Nick Cave has enjoyed—and continues to enjoy—one of the most extraordinary careers in the annals of popular music. He is an Australian artist like Sidney Nolan is an Australian artist—beyond comparison, beyond genre, beyond dispute."

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An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

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I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

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People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

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I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely.

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I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

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At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.

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I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.

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

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I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

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