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.

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

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.

I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.

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

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.