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

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

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 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.

There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods.

I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.

Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.