In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.
If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.
People think it's funny that I enjoy dreaming so much. I just use it as a form of entertainment. It's very private. I don't see my dreams as separate. I mean, half the time I'm wandering around dreaming anyway.
I get a much more extreme reaction when I have my hair really short. 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's a much more extreme reaction.
It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.
You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us
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.
Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.
You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense.
The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me.
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.
Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.
I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.
Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.
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.
You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous.
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.
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.