For most of his life, rock star Nick Cave says he was 'in awe of his own genius'. Cataclysmic life events fundamentally 're-arranged' him.
For most of his life, admits Nick Cave, Australia's baritone bard of the dark and deep, "I was in awe of my own genius" and everything else existed on the periphery."I just saw the folly of that ... disgraceful sort of self-indulgence," Cave, 66, tells Leigh Sales in a special Australian Story interview.
The Files, Cave says, enabled him to remain open to the world after Arthur's death. "The basic response to personal tragedy to sort of shut down and harden around the absence of somebody," he says. "And this just kept me open." But, says Cave, he and the Bad Seeds have never been afraid to lose fans. "I think that's the reason why we hang around for so long, because our audience is being constantly sort of reinvigorated by presenting different forms of music."Bringing Kylie into wild world of Murder Ballads
So, he approached Minogue, who has famously said she knew little about Cave. She sped-read a biography about him to gain some insight. Cave was drawn to religion after the death of his son, Arthur, and that faith now filters into his music.Meanings can change. One of the band's classics, the 1997-released Into My Arms, continues to evolve, just like Cave. Once, he used scripture, ritual and the spectre of a vengeful God to plumb the depths of hellfire, now the long-reformed addict finds meaning in faith.
"After Arthur died, not immediately, it's been quite a while now, but rather than feeling anger ... or rejecting that sort of stuff, I felt a slow movement towards a religious life that I've found extremely helpful," he says. But continued Cave, "what a defiant and outrageous act of positive intentionality ... of courage and faith in the human adventure itself, of resistance against cynicism, of pure, undiluted trust in things."When Cave thinks of Australia, it's the natural world that comes into view. He follows the tracks of his childhood; the river in Wangaratta, Victoria, the railway bridge that crosses it, the pedalling of his bike through the bush.
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