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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence. "

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

" Living, it's awful for me. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

" But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine. "

" Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on. "

" I'm not really obsessed with death. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me. "

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" 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. "