Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get.

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.

Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on.

In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.

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 up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us.