Nick Cave on the question of God.

Nick Cave has an incredible website, called The Red Hand, where he answers questions from fans, with depth, sincerity, and cleverness. I was delighted to learn tonight that he has written at some length about the question of God, which comes up very often amongst his fans. It’s all worth the read (and it’s not that long), but this is the part that struck me the most, and happens to describe the space my heart and head most often inhabit:

“Does God exist? I don’t have any evidence either way, but I am not sure that is the right question,” he writes. “For me, the question is what it means to believe. The thing is, against all my better judgement, I find it impossible not to believe, or at the very least not to be engaged in the inquiry of such a thing, which in a way is the same thing. My life is dominated by the notion of God, whether it is His presence or His absence. I am a believer – in both God’s presence and His absence. I am a believer in the inquiry itself, more so than the result of that inquiry. As an extension of this belief, my songs are questions, rarely answers.”

READ the entire post here, and be sure to check out some of the other questions he’s answered.