"See the ridiculous in everything."
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"I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap."
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"I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there."
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"I don't dislike my peers because they're still around and remind me of what I'm doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2, the things they've done over the years."
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"I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things."
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"I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore."
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"In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it."
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"Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does."
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"Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on."
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"If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work."
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"You know, the Internet's made us more aware of what people think about us."
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"It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all listening to what you're saying. When that group turns into 300 people, it goes on from weird. Some people revel in it, and I don't."
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"Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest."
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"I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop."
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"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."
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"Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds."
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"I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them."
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"My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child."
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"No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to."
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"Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years."
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