"I am very self-conscious a lot of the time."
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"I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October."
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"I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life."
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"If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you."
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"I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.'"
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"True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye."
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"Living, it's awful for me."
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"Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage."
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"I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did."
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"I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes."
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"I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?"
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"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."
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"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."
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"Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts."
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"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."
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"The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get."
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"A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like."
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"I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another."
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"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."
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"I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small."
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