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"I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor."
"When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You're a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn't."
"I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy."
"If I book a hotel it's actually very funny. It's very nice to be a genuine Mr Smith."
"Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying."
"But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine."
"There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable."
"It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band."
"When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'"
"There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods."
"I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier."
"I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine."
"Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire."
"There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off."
"It's better to forget than remember me and cry."
"I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them."
"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."
"I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway"
"My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible."
"Each time I play a song it seems more real."