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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.'

My Earliest Memories Are Sitting On The Beach At Blackpool, And I Know That If I Went Back, It Would Be Horrible. I Know What Blackpool's Like - It's Nothing Like I Imagined It Was As A Child.

You Can't Drink On An Eight Hour Flight, Pass Out, And Then Go Onstage... Well You Can, But Then You're Spandau Ballet.

Perhaps Not As Badly Applied And Not As Obvious, But For Thousands Of Years, People Have Worn Makeup On Stage.

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.