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" I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier. "

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" If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately. "

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

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" I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point? "

" 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. "

" A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like. "

" Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice. "

" I've got a Facebook page, but I've never put anything on it. 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 do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job. "

" 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 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. "

" Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage. "

" 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. "

" Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up. "

" Living, it's awful for me. "

" 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. "

" I'm not really obsessed with death. "

" 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. "

" Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years. "

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" 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. "

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

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" Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct. "

" It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band. "

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