Cured Quotes

“The desert seemed to be working its ancient magic on me.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“Joy Division opened up for us. Despite this it was a disappointing opening. We played our hearts out to a half-empty room.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“I did what most alcoholics do in this situation: I took a hostage. I got married to Lydia.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“I wore my blue silk wizard shirt all through the show with a Batman sticker on the back that, unbeknownst to me, Robert had slapped on as we mounted the steps to the stage.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“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.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“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”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“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.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“Reflections’, a gigantic concert showcasing our first three albums played back-to-back-to-back in their entirety for the first time ever.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“We had been given another chance and had a beautiful son we named Gray.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“A beautiful place for me to finally fall apart.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“happiness cannot be manufactured, nor can it be pursued as a goal. Rather, it is a by-product of our other life experiences.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“Contrary to popular belief we were not pale-faced Goths who sat in dark rooms with candles and cried all the time.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“In many ways Pornography is my favourite Cure album.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“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.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“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.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“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.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“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.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“they were just skeletal ideas, the bones of the songs to come.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“The promoter pulled the van onto one of the little canal roads that circle the city centre. It was a very charming place and I saw a few names on store fronts I had heard of, like De Beers, the famous diamond dealers.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“Most people don’t associate The Cure with punk, but Robert and I were the very first punks in Crawley.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys