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

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.

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

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

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

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

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

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.

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.

Goals are compulsive cahoots, gnawing at our minds everyday, challenging our abilities and pushing us closer to the curve of compliance.

But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. Not only had I loved her, I had chosen her.

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.

I see everything through a spiritual lens.

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.