A couple of years ago, we went to Eurodisney. That too was bearable, although it was a bit weird when Mickey Mouse came to ask for an autograph.
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.
Each time I play a song it seems more real.
I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.
I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?
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 don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.
I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.
I have a bag full of words, and when one of us comes up with a good piece of music, I look in the bag to see if anything there will fit. If nothing does, I sit down and try to put down on paper what the music makes me feel; very rarely will a piece of writing inspire a piece of music.
I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.
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.
I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.
I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.
I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
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 division anyway.
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've experienced such extremes both in the band and in my personal life, feelings that last for just a few seconds at a time, that it's like a drug. After a while, when they're not there you notice the absence of it and nothing seems real anymore and nothings quite sharp enough or focused enough.
If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
It has nothing to do with me if there's a lot of bootlegs of the Cure; I've never objected to them, no-one's ever had their tape recorder confiscated at a Cure show, it doesn't bother me in the slightest.
Jimi Hendrix changed my life. Each generation influences the following one and as a consequence brings it back to the past.
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.
Most of the time I'm a professional idiot. I really don't care about what other people think, which can be a bad thing.
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.
Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.
Originally I was going to take perverse satisfaction in making a depressing album.
Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
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.
The Cure, is the kind of band that wanders in and out of the mainstream's gaze.
The Press try to categorize me a 'gloom-and-doom' singer. But, take a look at Morrissey! That man's a professional moaner!
There are countries where the organizers don't know what they're doing or what's going on - but I wouldn't name Italy and Spain!
There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.
They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are.
When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
You don't really know a song until you play it live.
You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us.
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