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" Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world. "

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" Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it. "

" They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are. "

" I just play Cure music, whatever that is. "

" I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me. "

" When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You're a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn't. "

" I am very self-conscious a lot of the time. "

" Whatever I was doing, even when I was at school, I never repressed anything that I felt. I wasn't flamboyant; I was actually quite reticent most of the time. But if I felt I had to do something, I did it. "

" 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. "

" I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them. "

" I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy. "

" I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was. "

" People think it's funny that I enjoy dreaming so much. I just use it as a form of entertainment. It's very private. I don't see my dreams as separate. I mean, half the time I'm wandering around dreaming anyway. "

" 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. "

" I get a much more extreme reaction when I have my hair really short. 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 a much more extreme reaction. "

" I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small. "

" I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston. "

" Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds. "

" I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again when punk started. I've always been drawn to wearing it. It's partly ritualistic, partly theatrical and partly just because I think I look better with it on. "

" You don't really know a song until you play it live. "

" There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods. "

" You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous. "

" I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life. "

" I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things. "

" 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. "

" In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated. "

" 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. "

" The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something and then you stop and say, 'Wait, I think I've written that before.' "

" I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me. "