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.

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

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 don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.

I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.