My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.

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

I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.

I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.