In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.

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.

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

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 just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.

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.