“Early on, we were all big fans of Bowie, Roxy Music, Alice Cooper and Alex Harvey who were all entertainers, but we wanted to take it a step further. We didn’t want to take off our makeup when we went home, we wanted to be the same on stage as we were on the street, and if we acted differently it wouldn’t be because we were putting on a show for people. There are a lot of flaws to what I am saying because you do perform for people. But we were showing off a lot of the time on the street…”

Rowland S. Howard, Nick Cave: The Birthday Party & Other Epic Adventures (1996), p.46