“I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.”

Australian singer, musician and writer

Nick Cave is an Australian singer, musician, and writer best known as the frontman of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He is also known for his baritone voice and for a body of work that has long crossed between music and writing. His music is marked by emotional intensity and by influences drawn from different styles and traditions. His lyrics often return to death, religion, love, and violence, giving his songs a dark, searching tone.