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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.... →
I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.
If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.
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 only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.
Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.
When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.
I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really... →
I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.
I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.