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

I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.

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.

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.

I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.

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