Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness..

You make history when you do business..

Everything is personal..

It does make sense to put on some songs that are relatively short, because radio usually only plays songs that are less than 4 or 5 minutes..

I ride really bad when I overthink things..

In business for yourself, but not by yourself..

Can I touch your mango?.

The voice will always be heard, even if the song is very different..

The idea of listening to a record that's in one generic style, it becomes quite boring after the third or fourth song, in my opinion. It just becomes….

Usually we are saying only part of the truth..

Annabeth’s shoulders ached. The elevator’s easy-listening music didn’t help. If all monsters had to hear that song about liking piña coladas and gett….

You are a Universe of Universes And your Soul a source of Songs..

Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!.

...there began to come to her a first dim realization of God's humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means He chose to succ….

I can never tell what's going to end up being on an album until it's all finished. I'm reading the news everyday, and sometimes I just have to be awa….

You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape..

Religion is a byproduct of fear..

Not a specific song. What I do maybe love above all about Nick Cave is how he's created this universe, this world, where there are all these characte….

If somebody wanted to go and find songs of mine to fill an iPod, that aren't on any records. They could probably find dozens of songs besides the one….

When I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's when I realize that we all ha….

There has to be a song. There are too many dark nights, too many troublesome days, and too many wearisome miles. Somewhere deep in the forgotten corn….