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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move. "

" 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. "

" Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've got a Facebook page, but I've never put anything on it. 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. "

" I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point? "

" I'm not really obsessed with death. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "