The Cure Quotes
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The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me.
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I called Expo Hall to pick out dates in two to three weeks' time, because it sounds like we may do this again. We want to get a handle on how successful it was and what changes need to be made to the process.
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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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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.
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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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Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
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We see it on the news all the time and wanted to see what it's all about.
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Terry Fox was a hero to me when I was growing up.
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Whatever I was doing, even when I was at school, I never repressed anything that I felt. I wasn't flamboyant; I was actually quite reticent most of the time. But if I felt I had to do something, I did it.
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable.
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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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I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.
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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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Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.
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There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
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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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Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.
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You don't always have to sing dark things to be thoughtful.
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I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.
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I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.