You don't really know a song until you play it live.

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

I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.

When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'

I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.

I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.