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

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

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

" If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" I always place myself as the archetypal Cure fan. I'm the wrong age, but I still think that if I like anything particularly, our fans will. "

" 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. "

" I'm not really obsessed with death. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

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

" They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't dislike my peers because they're still around and remind me of what I'm doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2, the things they've done over the years. "

" 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. "