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Nick Cave on grief: ‘I want people to know that things get better’ | Dazed

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As his moving book Faith, Hope and Carnage gets its UK paperback release, the musician opens up about his struggles with grief, censorship, and why he thinks social media turns everyone into ‘a bunch of assholes’

Life has a way of presenting events so incomprehensible that they cannot be anticipated. In 2015, Nick Cave was confronted by a nightmare made real when the news came that his 15-year-old son Arthur had died . The bereavement pushed the musician into a liminal space of the darkest kind. A man of words, he discovered that they were weightless when it came to dealing with the direst of circumstances, incredibly ill-equipped to articulate the pain let alone quantify the loss. Logic too, dissolved before him. Everything had turned upside down. Grief changed everything. “We live our lives, and we t

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