A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

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.

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.

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

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.