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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Living, it's awful for me. "

" Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that. "

" Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don't actually seem to get anywhere. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes. "

" 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. "

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

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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? "

" Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs. "

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