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

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

" I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me. "

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

" I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I get a much more extreme reaction when I have my hair really short. I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter. It's a much more extreme reaction. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods. "