When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all listening to what you're saying. When that group turns into 300 people, it goes on from weird. Some people revel in it, and I don't.

I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.

Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

Living, it's awful for me.

I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

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