Nick Cave has described how the deaths of two of his four sons have made him prioritise being “a father and a husband and a kind of person of the world” over “the concept of being an artist” in an interview conducted in May on the anniversary of his son Jethro’s death, and aired in a 30-minute Australian broadcast on Monday night.
“For most of my life I was just sort of in awe of my own genius, you know, and I had an office and would sit there and write every day and whatever else happened in my life was peripheral,” Cave told ABC’s Australian Story presenter Leigh Sales.
