Nick Cave Quotes
I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
Cave, Nick. Nick Cave: Sinner Saint: The True Confessions. Edited by Mat Snow, Plexus Publishing, 2011, p. 94.
She was educated in Japan and was one of the earliest Chinese Nationalists, male or female. She was one of the charter members and one of the very few women who joined the Sun Yat Sen revolutionary party in 1904. She organized a military unit of 1000 under the cover of the school she was running. When Imperial troops discovered weapons at the school, she was arrested and tortured to find the names of the 1000 and their contacts who supplied them. This quotation is the only “confession” that she would give each time the torture was interrupted to give her an opportunity to confess and implicate the others. This was all she ever said despite the excruciating pain. Finally, when the Mandarin authorities could get nothing out of her and realized that she was becoming a hero by not talking, they beheaded her. Her words have come to symbolize great loyalty at personal sacrifice for a great cause.
Goodnight had fought on the Confederate side. He got himself together and became a very large rancher.
Nicholas Edward Cave AO is an Australian singer, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional actor. Known for his baritone voice and for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Cave's music is generally characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love and violence.
