People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we're the same way.
The title of a song is like the wrapping on a present.
If I had spent fourteen months in a small room with Jesus, I'd want to fist fight with him.
I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour.
To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.
I rummage around in artistic things from the past. If you don't understand the context, they wouldn't make any sense. I rummage around in conceptual ideas of the future, but if you don't know the source of the thinking, [it] wouldn't make any sense.