0:19 In all my years of interviewing I've never had so many colleagues wanting to come along to a recording as this one … with musician Nick Cave. Is that you? Yep, that's you, that's me. Is that your questions? It is, but I don't always use them. So it's my security. If you start looking at them, it means it's going terribly, horribly wrong. There's so many cameras. We'll wait for your coffee. Do I need any … You'll be on hair patrol. He grew up in Wangaratta and after a wild youth left Australia for the UK 45 years ago. Life always revolved around music with his band
1:00 The Bad Seeds … but more recently, after the loss of two of his four sons, he's found new meaning. For most of my life I was just sort of, in awe of my own genius, you know? And I, and I had an office, and I would sit there and write every day and, and whatever else happened in my life was,
1:30 was peripheral and even annoyances because I was involved in the, in this great work that I was that, you know, and, and this just collapsed completely and I just sort of saw the folly of that. The kind of the disgraceful sort of self-indulgence of the whole thing. It just, look my priorities changed. You know, I still work all the time. I still go on tour, you know,
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