Anyone who knows me well, will have caught the fact that I'm a big fan of the musical oeuvre of Nick Cave. This interview with Nick Cave is with Kirsty Wark, who asks such delicate yet prompting questions. Of course she is interviewing Cave, who is the most thoughtful and eloquent man. Here he talks with such humility, of his own faith and skepticism, the difference between being spiritual and religious. The power of music, and how you can like someone's music even if you don't agree with their politics. How as we grow older we all live lives of increasing grief.
The death of his son Arthur is still there etched into his face and into his soul. It has somehow both damaged and yet burnished him into a greater sympathy and sensitivity. He talks of his son's death as having broken completely his previous incomplete way of being. His increasing openness and engagement with his fans through his The Red Hand Files, is quite unique. An act of generosity that works both ways. Fabulous stuff, worth giving it your attention and time.
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