If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that.

True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.

See the ridiculous in everything.

No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to.

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You're a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn't.