Hate women? On the contrary – and I can’t see that my lyrics are in any way sexist – many of them are very deep love songs to women. “6 inch gold blade” was written, as it were, under the bedsprings of my unfaithful lover – whose head I can recall wanting to cleave apart with a large knife at the time – not that I’m the jealous type! But it doesn’t say I want to stick a 6” blade in the head of all women. A great many of my songs are about relationships that I’ve had, they’re very symbolic, very real. “Junkyard” is a love song, not in the Capital Radio sense but nevertheless it’s very real to me.
Nick Cave