Nick Cave has said that the way he views the world was “fundamentally changed” following t he death of two of his sons. The Australian musician’s son Arthur died aged 15 after he fell from a cliff near the family’s home in Brighton, England. Cave’s eldest son Jethro, whom he shared with model Beau Lazenby and with whom he had a complex relationship, died aged 31 in 2022 .
Cave, 66, said he is now “less precious about [his] own place in the world” and added that his music had become braver as a result of these losses. He told The Big Issue: “We change, sometimes multiple times, shattered by events. This can fundamentally change the way that you perceive the world and the way you behave.
“I think that happened to me to some degree, made me a little less precious about my own place in the world. The worst had happened. It maybe made me a little braver about things.
” Cave later discussed his 2007 song “O Children”, which remains his most popular track on Spotify, and which he wrote about not being “able to protect [his] children”. The song is still relevant today, he said: “I wrote (‘O Children’) 22 years ago watching my children when they were little, playing in a playground. “I wrote about this f*****-up world we were creating and that we had no way of protecting our children from.
That seemed relevant when it came out but it’s always found its theme. “From a personal level, I was not able to protect my children. Today too, children are d.