There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway

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

I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.

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

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.

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.