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Most people don’t associate The Cure with punk, but Robert and I were the very first punks in Crawley.
Reading very 1st chapter of very 1st book just bought on my brand new Kindle!
Joy Division opened up for us. Despite this it was a disappointing opening. We played our hearts out to a half-empty room.
Although we had come on the end of the punk revolution and people really wanted to label The Cure ‘post-punk’, it never felt like that to us.
they were just skeletal ideas, the bones of the songs to come.
We chose a very English way of dealing with our emotions: by not dealing with them at all. We figured if we ignored our problems, they would go away.
That was the real purpose, if there ever was one, of The Cure: to serve as the template for a kind of emotional therapy we created with our sounds and fury.
all of the various members of The Cure over the years, almost without exception, fell into a category of people halfway between introvert and extrovert. Ambivert is the term. I suppose it describes nearly every one of us at one time or another, but in The Cure I really feel that we were the extreme version of that. Especially Robert. He was either very social and extroverted or entirely the opposite. I believe to a certain extent to perform in front of people you have to have elements of both, otherwise you simply can’t do it.
In the UK punk was more of a cultural/political movement – it had to be, given the circumstances – whereas in the US it felt more like a social/fashion happening.
In many ways Pornography is my favourite Cure album.
Contrary to popular belief we were not pale-faced Goths who sat in dark rooms with candles and cried all the time.
happiness cannot be manufactured, nor can it be pursued as a goal. Rather, it is a by-product of our other life experiences.
A beautiful place for me to finally fall apart.
We had been given another chance and had a beautiful son we named Gray.
The desert seemed to be working its ancient magic on me.
‘Reflections’, a gigantic concert showcasing our first three albums played back-to-back-to-back in their entirety for the first time ever.
While I had suggested to Robert that we do something to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of Faith in 2011, it was his idea to do all three albums – Three Imaginary Boys, Seventeen Seconds and Faith – together.
he was a link to where I’d come from and where I’d been, my touchstone to the past, and a sad reminder of where I might have gone
The streets of London looked the same, yet different. It was somewhere that I felt should be totally familiar to me but now felt very alien. I wondered if maybe it was me that had changed, or whether the experiences I’d had after I left had wrought some kind of shift in my perceptions.
