Musician

I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.

They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are.

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.

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.

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.

I just play Cure music, whatever that is.

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.

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

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.

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.

It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.

Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.

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'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.

The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.

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.

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.