'Nick Cave, what's good?' Before the new millennium, the MTV VMAs were still an eventful ordeal but were still entrenched with commercialism, a side of the industry Nick Cave wanted no part of. After being nominated in 1996 for Best Male Artist, Cave wrote a polite but strange letter to MTV pulling out of the nomination describing his muse as an easily spooked horse.

Religion has always been embedded deep into Cave's thematic output as it has been for hundreds of great lyricists. However, none of those hundreds have ever written an introduction for Mark's Gospel like Cave have. The highlight probably being when Cave "denies Christ his potent, creative sorrow or his boiling anger."

Nick Cave has forayed into screenwriting in the past, but nothing will ever compare to his failed Gladiator sequel. Apparently asked to be written by Russell Crowe, Cave's rework involves a time-travelling Maximus (who is no longer dead but is immortal) showing up during battles throughout modern history, including World War II and Vietnam. The script ends with Maximus working in the Pentagon.

Back in 2012, Nick Cave wrote a script for a film called The Wettest Country In The World which was then used to create the 2012 drama, Lawless, starring Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf and Gary Oldman. 'It's not so much a true story as a true myth' said Cave of the film which is maybe the most Nick Cave thing Nick Cave ever said.

One of the many stories that circulate Cave's career, the high school cross-dressing myth may be set the earliest in his life. So it goes, Cave and his pals went into their high school in drag and if anyone were to cross their path they would be dealt swift justice via handbags loaded up with bricks.

Nick Cave has always been vocal about his love of Johnny Cash. In 2000, Cash covered Cave's 'The Mercy Seat' as a thank you for Cave's covering of Cash's 'The Folk Singer' on his Kicking Against the Pricks album, who said you should never meet your heroes?

Not only is Cave a certified badass, he also is a recipient of an honorary doctorate from University of Brighton for his contribution to film and the wider arts. This means that The Prince of Darkness should actually be The Doctor Prince of Darkness, it's never too late for a rebrand.

You may have heard that Nick Cave released a book earlier this year entitled, The Sick Bag Song. It's a collection poetry, prose, lyrics, musings and his encounters on his North American tour the previous year. What you may not know is that if you buy the physical copy of the book, it features actual copies of the sick bags Cave penned his ideas down on.

Noone escapes the vice like grip of Nick Cave's disdain, not even certified rockstars like Billy Corgan. In 1994, a fresh-faced, actually smiling and 27 years young Corgan was absolutely body-checked by Cave who attributed the Pumpkin as having "the mentality of a child" after Billy labelled the Bad Seeds as English during an interview - ouch.

In Soho there is a magical place that birthed the English Goth subculture, the place in question is the Batcave (different Batcave). Nick Cave was a regular at this nightclub alongside Robert Smith, Bauhaus and Siouxsie Sioux.

Nick Cave is a very high concept guy, so it's hard to imagine him being a pretty serious X-Files fanatic. That's not to suggest that the 90s sci-fi show is anything but fantastic, rather than it is to say that Cave has impeccable taste in what he invests his music in. 'Red Right Hand' featured in an episode early on in the show as well as contributing to a heavily underrated compilation mix.