Nick Cave: If there were a fire in my house I would save my dogs and the merchandise

Nick Cave got a letter in his The Red Hand Files box from a fan asking him what his thoughts were on merchandising of art. Cave's answer is heartwarming and funny, a very nice read: "Would I wear a pair of merch socks myself? The answer is well, yeah, I do – when I do Jane Fonda’s Workout with my wife, I wear a pair of Radiohead compression socks, RiRi sweatpants, a Leather Nun T-shirt and a Dire Straits headband. I am a star jumping, butt clenching dervish of banality and exploitation... However, banal and as exploitative as these things may be, I value some of them hugely, and if there were a fire in my house they could quite possibly be the first things I would grab after the dogs".