  Today's Guardian has urlLink the last interview Cash ever gave, and it's a poignant one. Sylvie Simmons was asked by Cash's label to write a book to accompany the soon to be released box set of never before heard music.
She was interviewing him for this project at his home, without any idea that it would be the last. I don't want to ruin it for you, but here's an exert: When we talked about his various operations and health issues two years back, Cash had laughed: "You would think death would be bored with me by now.
" This time, with the wound of his wife's passing still raw, he was more circumspect. "Isn't life full of passion and woe? " he said to me as we sat and looked out over the empty lake. "It always has been. It's just a different kind of pain when you get older. More physical, less spiritual, pain. " His religious faith, he said, was what kept him going - literally what had kept him alive - after June had gone.
That and the music, into which all the anger and passion and helplessness and sheer brute force of will was channeled. UPDATE: You can watch the video for Cash's cover of Nine Inch Nails' urlLink Hurt here! 
