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

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" When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense. "

" 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. "

" Living, it's awful for me. "

" Each time I play a song it seems more real. "

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

" I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument. "

" I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop. "

" I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it. "

" The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous. "

" I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important. "

" 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. "

" Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does. "

" You don't always have to sing dark things to be thoughtful. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. "

" I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October. "

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

" I don't dislike my peers because they're still around and remind me of what I'm doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2, the things they've done over the years. "

" 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. "

" There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off. "

" I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me. "

" 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 wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us. "

" 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. "

" You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us. "

" Without faith that there's a world beyond the one we live in, I don't see how it's possible to get rid of angst. "

" No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to. "