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" You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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 do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" Each time I play a song it seems more real. "

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

" Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band. "

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