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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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.

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.

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

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