I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again when punk started. I've always been drawn to wearing it. It's partly ritualistic, partly theatrical and partly just because I think I look better with it on.

It's better to forget than remember me and cry.

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.

I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important.

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

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

When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.