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

I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me.

It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

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

Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct.

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.

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