We've never been fashionable, we never kind of conformed to, you know, what's the happening thing in the UK. But we do well around the world at different levels with people who like what we play, you know, they enjoy the songs and they like the group. I forgot about that. So, actually playing in America and playing around Europe brought that back to me again like I'm much more confortable with what we're doing. When you kind of get in the bus and you think you're gonna drive somewhere and you're gonna play a concert and that's your job. It's like... It's just that feeling... I'm doing something that is exactly what I wanted to do when I was young.

There were times when we were making the album that you'd have a sense it was perfect. They are all really different and that's why the album is called Wild Mood Swings. 'Cause it is, it does kind of jump wildly. And Bare is pretty intense. There are observations in that song on various relationships I've seen desintegrate over the last 5 years. And it was only when I started writing the song that I realized how much it affected me. I think it's because there's like an emotional content and people kind of understand. I tried to keep it very simple as well.

Jupiter Crash is really about the comet crash a couple of years ago. As an analogy for a failed sexual encounter. And how you kind of build people up. Everyone expected the comet kind of hit Jupiter and Jupiter was gonna explode. Unless you have a pretty powerful telescope, you couldn't see anything at all. That sort of sense, there's a big build up and the next day, people were saying "That was rubbish". It wasn't rubbish, it was incredible. It wasn't what you expected. That was the analogy.

At the end of the 1992 tour, I was a different person, I changed and I hated what I turned into. I was living in a bubble. I discarded a lot of the elements I didn't like about touring on this tour. Essentially, I just didn't want to do another tour and get exhausted at the end of it and hate everyone else in the group and the groupe breaks up. And I have to find someone to make the next album, it's like a really pointless process. And it has always happened. Historically, whenever we finish a world tour, the group breaks up. At least, one person leaves. And I hate everyone that's left in the group, you know... When with this one, we're almost 2/3 of the way through and we still go out with each other through choice. You know, if we have a night off, we actually go out to eat together. Which is how it should be.

We'll probably do The 13th tonight 'cause it was a hit in Italy. For some reason. (laugh). And we haven't done it yet in Italy. And after the last two shows, we had people, kind of like, "why didn't you play the 13th ?". People appreciate if you try to do something and it goes wrong. At least you tried to do something for them. It's different. We've got about 110 songs we can play so doing 3 hours is only really about 30 to 35 songs. It isn't that many. And we can do like different sets every night of the week. In America we changed at least 7 songs every night 'cause there're people following us around. In Europe, more so, there's like a bunch of people, their number in the hundreds, that follow us around an entire country and see every show. So it's partly for that reason as well. You kind of think "well, if they bother to do that then...". It's mainly and primarily because it's more fun to do a song you're not quite sure how it's gonna turn out if I can't remember the 3rd verse. It actually adds a little bit to the stage performance, it makes every night unique and it keeps everyone on their toes.

I like the interaction with people as well and that's why the Cure's always been a live band. 'Cause it has always played a big part of what we do. But when I'm on stage, it's like... I'm half way through it and I catch myself thinking "This is why I do it".

There's lots of different levels in what I think the group has achieved. Some are very personal to me. Albums and songs, I've made something I'm really proud of and it pleases me. There are other levels, I see how the group has affected other people. Which pleases me in a different kind of way. I don't really see it as some kind of linear event. It doesn't start somewhere and I'm not going somewhere. It's like... different stages in my life, I do things with a group called the Cure. And I see it in that way. It isn't actually like this journey I'm taking with the group. It just reflects my different moods wherever point I'm at. And usually, it has more to do with other things I have in my life.

Essentially, I'd find life unbearable and pointless if I wasn't creating something. That's the core of what I do. Whether it's called the Cure, that's kind of secondary. I mean, I'm... playing music and writing songs because I find that's the way I can express myself best.

If I'd wake up and think "I don't really enjoy this anymore, it doesn't mean anything to me anymore". Then I wouldn't do it. I can say that, I suppose, because I haven't had to make a choice. Obviously, the reality would be much more difficult to kind of walk away from something... There is a side which is very addictive. And it's very flattering to have people pay you a lot of attention, to like what you do. That's the side of my nature I begin to dislike when we're on tour. I don't know. I just want to wake up and still enjoy the idea of being in the Cure. I suppose, that's my ambition.