Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.

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

I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October.

Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.

There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.

I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important.