It's a perfect day for letting go.

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.

Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

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

I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.

I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.