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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible. "

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

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" Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer. "

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" It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all listening to what you're saying. When that group turns into 300 people, it goes on from weird. Some people revel in it, and I don't. "

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

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Living, it's awful for me. "

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" My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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