Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don't actually seem to get anywhere.

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

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

I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.