Nick Cave & Sean O'Hagan Faith, Hope and Carnage

This is not a memoir, this is a conversation 

'We may shed many skins,but we are essentially the same damn snake'

'But surely your outlook is entirely different now?'

' Well, the young Nick Cave could afford to hold the world in some form of disdain because he had no idea of what was coming down the line. I can see now that this disdain or contempt for the world was a kind of luxury or indulgence, even a vanity. He had no notion of the preciousness of life- the fragility. He had no idea how difficult, but essential,it is to love the world ad to treat the world with mercy. And like I said, he had no idea what was coming down the road.'