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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us. "

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

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

" I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm not really obsessed with death. "

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

" I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them. "

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

" I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again when punk started. I've always been drawn to wearing it. It's partly ritualistic, partly theatrical and partly just because I think I look better with it on. "

" 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. "

" 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 lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me. "