Nick Cave fights back tears over how deaths of his sons changed him-Alistair McGeorge-Entertainment – Metro

Nick Cave got choked up as he revealed how his outlook on life has changed after the deaths of his two sons.

The Bad Seeds frontman, 66, appeared overcome with emotion in a teaser for a new interview after losing children Arthur, aged just 15, and Jethro, 31, in the last nine years.

‘I’m sorry this is actually quite difficult to talk about,’ he said in a promo for a special Australian Story interview.

Arthur died in 2015 after taking LSD for the first time and falling almost 20 metres off a cliff near his home in Brighton.

Seven years later, Jethro – who had schizophrenia and battled drug addiction – died just two days after being released from jail, and two months after he violently assaulted his mother, Beau Lazenby.

Nick admitted his previous outlook on life, where art was his main priority, ‘collapsed completely’ after the death of Arthur, who he welcomed alongside twin Earl in 2000 with wife Susie Cave.

Nick Cave was choked up talking about his sons’ deaths (Picture: ABC)

He realised that being a good partner, father and grandfather is more important than art (Picture: ABC)

‘That idea that art trounces everything, it just doesn’t apply to me anymore,’ he said, while describing himself as a ‘husband’, ‘father’, ‘grandfather’ and ‘person of the world’.

He added: ‘These things are much more important to me than the concept of being an artist.’

‘I was in awe of my own genius,’ he explained. ‘I just saw the folly of that… disgraceful sort of self-indulgence.’

Nick and Susie lost son Arthur in 2015 (Picture: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

He previously opened up on his grief, and described loss as ‘a deepening element’ which can bring ‘incredible meaning into our life’.

‘We eventually absorb, or rearrange ourselves, so that we become creatures of loss as we get older; this is part of our fundamental fabric of what we are as human beings,’ he told The Guardian.

‘This is not a tragic element to our lives but rather a deepening element and that brings incredible meaning into our life.

Nick insisted it’s ‘against nature’ for a parent to bury their child (Picture: Hellen Arensbak/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images)

‘I’ve found that personally, and I think a lot of other people have found that, provided you can remain open.’

And he admitted ‘there can’t help but be feelings of culpability’ over his sons’ deaths, because it is ‘against nature’ for a parent to be forced to bury their child.

‘I think it’s something that people who lose children feel regardless of the situation,’ he said. ‘Simply because the one thing you’re supposed to do is not let your children die.’

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