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

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible..

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

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

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

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 Roll….

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

It's better to forget than remember me and cry..

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

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 understan….

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 sayi….

Living, it's awful for me..

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

The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get..

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

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..

It's a perfect day for letting go..

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

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 notic….

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

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