He says: "I think as an artist it's a necessary part of what I do, that there is some divine element going on within my songs." Song is a form of prayer."Ĭave has ascribed the mellowing of his music to a shift in focus from the Old to the New Testament of the Bible. His preoccupation with Old Testament (the earlier half of the Bible) ideas of good versus evil culminated in what has been called his signature song, The Mercy Seat (1988).Įven if returning to church as an adult did not immediately quell his addictions, Cave believes that "any true love song is a song for God. "I mean, it was mad."ĭuring his Australian childhood Cave would attend his local Anglican church, sometimes twice a week.Ī ‘seed’ was being planted – memories and impressions that would influence his prodigious creative output for many years to come. "I really felt on some level that I had a kind of workable balance in my life," he says.
I would wake up and need to score, and the first thing I would do is go to church."ĭrug-free for a while now, he frankly admits that he would "sit through the entire service, listening to the priest and then immediately hit up local dealers to score drugs. A gifted songwriter whose lyrics have at times tellingly revealed his personal struggle with faith, and his addictions, Cave now openly admits: "I was a junkie. It was a devastating blow for the lead singer and founder of the Bad Seeds – best known in the UK, perhaps, for Where The Wild Roses Grow – his 1996 duet with Kylie Minogue.Īnd tragically drug addiction has been no stranger to Cave. SINGER Nick Cave, 59, has recently spoken movingly about the loss of his 15-year-old son, Arthur, who fell to his death in 2015 while high on the drug LSD.
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