“I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explode…” — Robert Smith

I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

I'm not really obsessed with death.

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.