It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

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.

The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.

True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer.

It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.