Nick Cave is a man of many talents. Musician. Songwriter. Screenwriter. Novelist. Actor. The Australian was born in Warracknabeal, Victoria in 1957, and would go onto form the alternative rock band 'Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' .
Singer.
Viviane Carneiro is the mother of his eldest son, Luke
He had twin sons, Arthur Cave and Earl Cave , with his wife Susie Bick. Tragically, his son Arthur died in July 2015 following a fall from a cliff.
Sung his beautiful ballad, "Into My Arms", at the funeral of Michael Hutchence (during which someone tried to throw themselves off a balcony). The funeral was filmed for TV but, out of respect for Hutchence, Cave refused to allow his song to be recorded.
Auditioned for the part of "Patrick Channing" in The First Power .
Author of the books And The Ass Saw The Angel and King Ink.
Shot to fame in the 1980s as head of the band The Birthday Party and climbed to greater prominence in the 1990s with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds , where he recorded a duet with Australian superstar Kylie Minogue , "Where The Wild Roses Grow" .
Left Australia in the 1980 and has not lived there since then.
Winner of the 2005 Q Classic Songwriter Award.
Is a talented pianist.
Godfather of Michael Hutchence and Paula Yates daughter Tiger Lily.
(October 2004) Currently involved in the filming of his screenplay, The Proposition , which stars Ray Winstone and Guy Pearce and is directed by John Hillcoat.
Was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the Officer in the General Division in the 2017 Australia Day honors for distinguished service to the performing arts as a musician, songwriter, author and actor, both nationally and internationally, and as a major contributor to Australian music culture and heritage.
Is a visual artist.
No one will ever be able to read a book by me, or see me in a film, or,read about me robbing a bank without seeing me first as a rock singer.
I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
I just found this world a hard place to be good in,’ says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still.
There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work. There are those who stop so they can work. Working is the why of work.
Out of sorrow entire worlds have been builtOut of longing great wonders have been willed,The boy will grow older, and over time there will be other songs – not many – ten or maybe twenty in a lifespan, that stand apart from the rest of the music he will discover. He will realise as he grows older still, and crosses the Canadian border and drives down into Seattle, that not only are these songs holy or sacred, they are hiding songs – what the Aztec Indians call carrion songs – that deal exclusively in darkness, obfuscation, concealment and secrecy. He will realize that, for him, the purpose of these songs has been to shut off the sun, to draw a long shadow down and protect him from the corrosive glare of the world.
The boy will grow older, and over time there will be other songs – not many – ten or maybe twenty in a lifespan, that stand apar from the rest of the music he will discover. He will realise as he grows older still, and crosses the Canadian border and drives down into Seattle, that not only are these songs holy or sacred, they are hiding songs – what the Aztec Indians call carrion songs – that deal exclusively in darkness, obfuscation, concealment and secrecy. He will realize that, for him, the purpose of these songs has been to shut off the sun, to draw a long shadow down and protect him from the corrosive glare of the world.
All of our days are numbered; we cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you can hold on to that flame great things can be constructed around it that are massive and powerful and world changing – all held up by the tinniest of ideas.
If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.
The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas.
Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.
