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

It's a perfect day for letting go.

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

If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.

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

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

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.