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

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….

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 p….

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 p….

I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be ….

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 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..

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

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

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

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

I don't dislike my peers because they're still around and remind me of what I'm doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2, the things they'v….

You know, the Internet's made us more aware of what people think about us..

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

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 someo….

For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming ….

If I book a hotel it's actually very funny. It's very nice to be a genuine Mr Smith..

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 divisi….

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 ….

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