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.

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

I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.

Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.

Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.