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"I've got a Facebook page, but I've never put anything on it. I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because, otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me."
"When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense."
"The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me."
"If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately."
"Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world."
"If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that."
"I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me."
"I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter."
"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 don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result."
"I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us."