Nick Cave: “Conservatism Is an Aspiration”

NC: Well, we are told relentlessly that the world is doomed. The media amplifies this idea to the point of hysteria. We are conditioned to only see the world in terms of oppression and corruption and degradation. To some degree it is hard not be sucked into this torrent of despair, to become hardened and cynical. However, it doesn’t take much to se... See more

My advice to young artists is to do what my painter friends at art school used to tell me—stop moaning and get to work, regardless of whether one is “feeling it” or not. Inspiration comes, in time, to the prepared mind, at least that is what I have found.