Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.
Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don't actually seem to get anywhere.
I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.
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 think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.
I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable.
Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.
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 understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me.
The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.
I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.
I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.
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 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'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.
When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You're a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn't.
Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.
If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
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 political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.
Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on.
