There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.

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.

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

Living, it's awful for me.

Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.

Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.

If I book a hotel it's actually very funny. It's very nice to be a genuine Mr Smith.