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" I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did. "

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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. "

" For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us. "

" Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest. "

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

" I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap. "

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

" When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.' "

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

" The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me. "

" I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.' "

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

" 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'm not really obsessed with death. "

" 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 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. "

" If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work. "

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

" I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another. "

" I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine. "

" I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway. "

" It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa. "