Nick Cave explains why he’s decided to start doing interviews again

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Nick Cave has spoken openly on his fan Q&A website The Red Hand Files about his recent decision to resume doing interviews.The musician has used the site in the past few years as his main communication outlet, where he responds to fan questions on a number of topics.Cave, however, recently gave a rare interview to The New York Times in which he discussed his new book Faith, Hope and Carnage.Asked on The Red Hand Files by Jeroen from Ghent, Belgium about why he’d decided to start doing interviews again, Cave explained: “A little while after [Cave’s son] Arthur died, I did an interview for a mainstream newspaper, but I felt so bad about it, so unsettled by what I said, that I vowed never to do one again.

I felt completely unequipped to talk about anything, least of all the death of my son. I just didn’t have the words.“A few years later I began The Red Hand Files (which was four years old last week!).

The process of answering your questions taught me how to write about certain things. Your questions became exercises in how to be and what to believe.

I was able to construct a world view based on intimacy, vulnerability, uncertainty and commonality.”Cave then explained how during lockdown he began speaking regularly to Seán O’Hagan, who co-wrote Faith, Hope and Carnage with Cave.Faith, Hope and Carnage, the new book from Nick Cave & Seán O'Hagan, is available now to pre-order: https://t.co/zTqGZLtd0c pic.twitter.com/8XTvnfFuvP— Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (@nickcave) March 29, 2022“I’d run into him from time to time over the years, mostly backstage at various gigs.