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1 " 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
2 " The desert seemed to be working its ancient magic on me. "
3 " Joy Division opened up for us. Despite this it was a disappointing opening. We played our hearts out to a half-empty room. "
4 " 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. "
5 " happiness cannot be manufactured, nor can it be pursued as a goal. Rather, it is a by-product of our other life experiences. "
6 " A beautiful place for me to finally fall apart. "
7 " 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. "
8 " they were just skeletal ideas, the bones of the songs to come. "
9 " 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. "
10 " Reflections’, a gigantic concert showcasing our first three albums played back-to-back-to-back in their entirety for the first time ever. "
11 " We had been given another chance and had a beautiful son we named Gray. "
12 " 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. "
13 " 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 "
14 " Most people don’t associate The Cure with punk, but Robert and I were the very first punks in Crawley. "
15 " In many ways Pornography is my favourite Cure album. "
16 " 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. "
17 " Contrary to popular belief we were not pale-faced Goths who sat in dark rooms with candles and cried all the time. "
18 " 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. "
19 " 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. "
20 " 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. "
