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

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

" 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 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. "

" If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately. "

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

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

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

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

" I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore. "

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

" I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else. "

" 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. "

" Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

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

" It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all listening to what you're saying. When that group turns into 300 people, it goes on from weird. Some people revel in it, and I don't. "

" I'm not really obsessed with death. "