I always place myself as the archetypal Cure fan. I'm the wrong age, but I still think that if I like anything particularly, our fans will.
I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.
I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.
I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.
I had every intention of 'Bloodflowers' being the last Cure record. I thought it would be fantastic to finish with the best thing we'd ever done, but I wasn't sure we could pull it off.
I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.
When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine.
I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.
Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.
I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.
I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.
I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.
It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.
I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.
You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.
You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense.
