What Nick Cave thinks about happiness
Australian songwriter and writer, frontman of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Since 2018 he has answered readers' questions in public at The Red Hand Files, where most of what he has said about how songs are made now lives.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Nick Cave has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingSuffering is not an interruption of a good life but the ground the good things grow out of.
Their wordsSuffering is the essential and nourishing ground from which all the delightful gifts of life emerge.
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