Nick Cave, who recently started performing his first live shows since his 15-year-old son Arthur sadly fell to his death in July 2015, said: "The further we get away from that time, it’s easier to – it’s not always possible – but it’s easier to divide your time. So there’s what we call a remembering time and then there’s time where we work, and we’re able fairly successfully – not all the time – to be able to somehow divide that up.
"And in the remembering time, things can be… we’re in no condition to work and stuff like that. But we’re able to step out of that quite effectively and do our work and do our jobs and be with each other and all that sort of stuff. So we’re getting better and better at that. It’s… you know… Not always successful.”
Cave opened up about the tragedy in an interview with Noisey. “Before it was just chaos. It was just absolute emotional chaos 24/7, all the time," he revelaed. "We couldn’t… we had no control over anything, and it’s just taken us a while to – it sounds weird to say – organise our emotions. Otherwise you just can’t live, really.”

The horrible tragedy heavily influenced the ‘Skeleton Tree' album, which was released to much critical acclaim last year.
“No one was really able to function in a viable way in the studio, which I think was a good thing, because it allowed those songs to resist any kind of tampering with. We just had these extremely raw songs that reverberated with the feelings of everything that happened, or became a mirror for this terrible incident," he explained.
"And the more we played around with the songs, the less effective that became. So we were able just to put out this record that really is very pure, and has very little artifice on it whatsoever. I’ve gotta say, when we were in the studio trying to work on ‘Skeleton Tree’, I had no idea what was going on.”