It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

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

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

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.

You don't really know a song until you play it live.

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

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