Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. Thats — Robert Smith (musician)

"Ive experienced such extremes both in the band and in my personal life, feelings that last for just a few seconds at a time, that its like a drug. After a while, when theyre not there you notice the absence of it and nothing seems real anymore and nothings quite sharp enough or focused enough. (Spin magazine 1989)"

"A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but Ive never met a journalist Id rather look like. And its not just a performance thing. I dont drive around the countryside in full makeup because it would scare the animals, but Ive been wearing makeup since I was a teenager, after I saw Bowie wearing it on Top of the Pops. I immediately borrowed someones older sisters makeup and put it on. I loved how odd it made me look, and the fact that it upset people. You put on eyeliner and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous."

"I used to go out with Severin a lot to dance clubs but we wouldnt dance. Itd be more like take drugs and try to get to the toilet which would usually take about two hours...we became good friends but we were never really good for each other. Our friendship was based entirely on altered states. Whenever we went out together I would never come home until the next day. Mary hated it. (Faith, 1983)"

"Its really weird but my parents used to tell me I could do anything I wanted to. I used to say, Well, what if I want to be an astronaut and go to the moon?" and my dad used to say, If you really want to you can. I used to think he was talking absolute rubbish, particularly when I was 21 and he was still saying that. But in a way it really stuck with me cos my dad ended up doing exactly what he wanted to do. To an outside point of view hes totally conformed, hes had a family and four kids but hes only ever done things that made him genuinely happy. "He jacked in his job cos it made him unhappy and he didnt want to compromise his entire life just for the sake of carrying it through. Its very admirable, that quality, and I think its very rare in people. Most people feel so conditioned, so oppressed by everything that goes on around them that they just give in. You have to refuse to give in. (Melody Maker, March 7th 1992)"

"We never became a mainstream band. Its kind of like weve bridged two worlds, or fallen between two stools, between alternative and mainstream. To a lot of mainstream programmers, The Cure is still a bit too weird. To an alternative programmer, sometimes were a bit too mainstream. Sometimes weve benefited from that and sometimes weve kind of suffered. I actually enjoy that kind of position because I think it reflects what the band does (CMJ, December 1999)"

"A couple of years ago, we went to Eurodisney. That too was bearable, although it was a bit weird when Mickey Mouse came to ask for an autograph. (Humo Magazine, 2000)"