It's Better To Forget Than Remember Me

I Still Frequent My Parents' House. I Go There To Escape, Back To The Bedroom That I Grew Up In. Just To Sit There And Feel Small.

When Punk Came Along, I Found My Generation's Music. I Grew Up Listening To The Beatles And The Rolling Stones And Pink Floyd, 'cause That Was What Got Played In The House. But When I First Saw The Stranglers, I Thought, 'this Is It.'

Each Time I Play A Song It Seems More Real.

For A Period In The '90s, I Felt That The Cure Was Massively Undervalued. But There Has Been A Paradigm Shift. There's A Bunch Of Newer Bands Coming Up Who've Grown Up Listening To The Cure And Don't Understand That You're Not Supposed To Like Us.

The Very First Concert I Ever Went To On My Own Was Actually Rory Gallagher. In A One-month Period In 1973 Or '74, I Saw Him, Thin Lizzy And The Rolling Stones. I Wasn't Really A Big Rory Gallagher Fan, But I Thought His Guitar Playing Was Fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, They Were Fabulous.