The musician was writing in response to a fan as part of his 'Red Hand Files' Q&A series Nick Cave has opened up on how he came to embrace a “new and raw honesty toward myself and the world” following the tragic death of his son in 2015.
Cave addressed the topic of honesty in the latest edition of his ongoing Red Hand Files Q&A series, writing in response to a fan who was “impressed by your brutal honesty when answering such personal questions” in a 2017 GQ profile.
Referencing a line by the poet David Whyte (“the fear of loss is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties”), Cave said he “found there to be so much truth in these words”. “After my son died and I eventually stepped from the darkness back into the world, I
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