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

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.

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.

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.

I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.

Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on.