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You can tell me to go fuck myself all day, but both the Elvis movie and the song Tupelo still suck.
ANON, ANON, ANON
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Go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself
Go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself
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Fuck; you’re funny
LINDA, ANSTEAD, AUSTRALIA
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I’m tired of listening to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Any new music recommendations?
CHRISTIAN, TORONTO, CANADA
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Yes, have you heard Go Fuck Yourself?
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Do you find answering our heartfelt questions with yes/no/I don’t know/go fuck yourself satisfying?
BECKY, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND
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Do you believe a marriage between two adult siblings should be legal?
WYATT, BENTONVILLE, USA
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Do you, or have you ever, entertained a belief in Bigfoot?
MATTHEW, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND
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You have ruin it all!!!
You allways ruin everything.
Now you are a good boy haaaa
A good cap is a dead cap!!!!
Start believe it it again!!!
INBAR, JERUSALEM, ISRAEL
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How do you deal with all these bullshit questions every day?
DMITRY, SHANGHAI, CHINA
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I don’t know, but go fuck yourself
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There are a lot of good anti-war songs out there. What’s your favourite?
MARTIN, LEJRE, DENMARK
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Dolphins by Tim Buckley (Old Grey Whistle Test version)
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A timeless question between my friends is which is a better version of ‘I could put a spell on you’ … Nina Simone… Creedence Clearwater or Screaming Jay Hawkins?
JOSEPH, ILKESTON, UK
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How do you feel about loaning Colin Greenwood to Radiohead for their gigs?
PAUL, WRIGHTINGTON, UK
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In issue #328, you are a little unkind to Morrissey. Do you ever regret things you say on Red Hand Files?
ALISON, MANCHESTER, UK
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Do people ever write in, divulge something deeply personal, and ask you not to respond?
EVAN, BOSTON, USA
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Do you consume violent content?
CEREN, ISTANBUL, TURKEY
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Unfortunately, yes, all the time
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Have you ever surfed?
LAURA, KAUNAS, LITHUANIA
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Do you think you would make a good girl dad?
GEORGIE, AIEL, USA
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I love the sound of the French Horn on your records. What is your favourite sound?
TOMMIE, UTAH, USA
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What made you go to Berlin in the 1980s?
ANDREW, BERLIN, GERMANY
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Turning eighteen is frightening. What would you say to your eighteen-year-old self?
KAELA, SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE
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Sometimes I find myself standing in the woods, just talking to the trees and listening to the quiet language of nature. It made me want to ask, do you ever speak to the trees?
SARA, SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA
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I’m really glad I got over being mad at you and started reading these letters again.
REGINA, PARIS, FRANCE
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Do you block vexatious questioners?
DAN, LONDON, UK
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You complete fucking twa
BARRY, MANCHESTER, UK
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Almost all of my favorite artists use their platform to speak to the inhumanity of the world. Do you ever feel a responsibility to speak directly to human causes?
DAVID, MONTREAL, CANADA
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How do you safeguard Red Hand Files from political anger and maintain its humanity?
DAVID, MONTREAL, CANADA
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Is it hard to stand your ground?
JON, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
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Are you able to shrug off criticism easily?
FRANCESCA, ROME, ITALY
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Why are your album covers not more artistic? Why not commission a super cool oil painting, or experiment with different mediums?
LIV, LONDON, UK
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What is the most impressively obscene or profane line you’ve ever written?
MATT, KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA
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I don’t believe in an interventionist God
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#337
Amen
ELIZABETH, BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA
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I sometimes imagine you swimming in that melancholic river and see you emerge rejuvenated on its banks. I hope this is true.
SHANE, CORK, IRELAND
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Nick, if I fucking hate someone, do I have to go to an art gallery with them?
STEVE, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
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Ever felt responsibility or guilt for making heroin appear cool ?
SEBASTIAN, BERLIN, GERMANY
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Would you be willing to sponsor my daughter’s public high school marching band?
STEPHANIE, STEPHENS CITY, VIRGINIA, USA
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Wide Lovely Eyes is the closest thing to a perfect song I’ve ever heard. Do you agree?
JACK, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, USA
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Endorsing fucking Bran Flakes? How low can you go? You fucking sell-out. Are you a shill for Kellogg’s now?
MARVO, PORTLAND, USA
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You seem to go from being really wise to being completely juvenile. Do you think that has a diminishing effect on your message? Whatever that is?
DANIEL, LIVERPOOL, UK
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Have you ever turned down absolutely bonkers money offered for one of your songs to appear in a commercial?
SCOTT, PARADISE, AUSTRALIA
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Do you speak any other languages? French, maybe?
DENIS, LILLE, FRANCE
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Ads on The Red Hand Files. (re: Bran Flakes plug) I suppose God signed off on that, Nick?
PASCAL, COLMAR, FRANCE
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Cher Pascal, va te faire foutre
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Hey Nick! Do you have grey hair?
IMKE, LONDON, UK
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| No, my hair is black. L’Oréal 1 – 0 Natural Black
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Will you ever let go and embrace the grey just like your friend Warren?
MIKE, LIVERPOOL, UK
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Is Warren allowed to wear his Lidl shorts while performing as a bad seed on the European festival tour next year?
ELLIE, GENT, BELGIUM
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dear nick cave your songs
are very good
and your
voice
is very low why do you have kids
its weird
JUDE, PORT WILLUNGA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA
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What’s with the koala bear emoji? What does it mean?
MARIA, MALMÖ, SWEDEN
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Do you have a tendency just to double down?
RAFF, NEW YORK, USA
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🐨 🐨 🐨 🐨 🐨 🐨 🐨 🐨 🐨 🐨 🐨 🐨 🐨 🐨 🐨 🐨 🐨 🐨 🐨 🐨 🐨 🐨 🐨 🐨 🐨 🐨 🐨
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Are you essentially a comedian?
CARLO, BARCELONA, SPAIN
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Have you ever thought of making an entirely jazz album? Without contaminations, pure and classic jazz.
VINCENZO, NAPLES, ITALY
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Is the human breath, the human heartbeat, the mother’s lullaby, the sweetest of all musics?
MICHAEL, SEATTLE, USA
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Do you agree with Claude Debussy, “Music is the silence between the notes”?
STEFAN, SANTIAGO, CHILE
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William Burroughs theorized that we are infected by a virus that feeds on our fears, insecurities, and addictions.
Do you believe in this?
JUAN, GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR
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Have you ever lived an impossible love? And please tell Howard I love him.
Your files are like little drops of happiness
CATHERINE, SOIGNIES, BELGIUM
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Hey, Howard, Catherine loves you. She seems nice
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When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
MASSY, LONDON, UK
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Is this a fucking cult?
SAM, AGRA, INDIA
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What keeps you going on?
DANIEL, VITÓRIA, BRAZIL
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What do you mean by ‘toddler’ politics? [ ] in Issue # 337?
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Short chanted rhymes of incalculable stupidity
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Did you sell your soul to Satan?
BRAD, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND
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Do you think pure evil exists?
ELAENA, BILBAO, BASQUE COUNTRY
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Do you oppose genocide?
ANGELA, VANCOUVER, CANADA
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Not knowing is ignorance vs knowing you don’t know is intelligence.
TRISH, BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA
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Transcendental meditation or centering prayer. Father Thomas Keating’s response, “the dance is the same, but the partner is different.”
TC, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
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Do you believe that this life is kind of a test?
MARCEL, HAMBURG, GERMANY
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If Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban can’t go the distance, what hope is there for the rest of us?!
CHRIS, WEEHAWKEN, USA
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Kudos to you Nick – you answer questions from the most sniveling, self-aggrandizing, righteous, whiny, arrogant kids. Is there a part of you that just wants to tell them to fuck right off?
JONATHAN, SEVENOAKS, UK
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How do you feel about your fame, whatever you call it, and the restrictions it places on you? Don’t you miss the opportunity to simply wander through The Laines to visit the numerous fantastic small music venues in Brighton, to soak up the emerging young talent?
EMMA, MILFORD, ENGLAND
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Are you a good man?
JULIEN, TOULOSE, FRANCIS
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Do you think we will be reunited with our beloved dead?
MARTIN, DUISBURG, GERMANY
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Yes, there is a reasonable possibility of that
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Keep making me laugh.
DAVID, NAIROBI, KENYA
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Do you pronounce it scone or scone?
NICK, CHORLEY, UK
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I’ve been writing to you for a long time. I’d like to know you don’t laugh at what I write, otherwise I’ll keep quiet. You’re beyond my favorite singer, anyway.
GRETA, 13 YEARS OLD, CLUSONE, ITALY
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Greta, you’re just the best
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I think I’ll make this my last letter to you.
I don’t really know what my question is, all I know is that I’m utterly broken.
I’m with the crisis team now. They truly are angels that walk amongst us.
I’m fucked Nick. Fully and utterly. I am so broken.
All I ask is one word. Just one.
Would you please at least say yes?
Just that.
MARK, LICHFIELD, ENGLAND
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Thank you!
ADAM, YAMBA, AUSTRALIA
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Ah, go fuck yourself ❤️
Love, Nick
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