The Kiss: "is about... me. One of the very few mornings of the year when I've woken up and I don't remember exactly what I've done the night before."

Catch: "... is a very winsome, mystical love song. That's something that happens to me all the time, when I see people I haven't seen for a year."

Torture: "Is about bondage. It's best left untouched"

If Only Tonight We Could Sleep...: "it's about my preoccupation with the romantic idea of Angels. It exists all through history, the idea of an angel: a guardian angel, an avenging angel, or a dark angel. I've met some people who are "angelic", and I didn't think you could meet someone who is an angel. It's funny how it's turned into a slang word: "Oh you angel!". It's really a gorgeous idea, someone or something being angelic. I cherish the idea of Angels. It's like poetry."

Why Can't I Be You?: "That was written, actually, about what someone else said to me. I was having a conversation with somebody who was very over-awed at meeting me and they said they wanted to be me. I spent the whole afternoon pointing out why I was no different from him. And if I wasn't comfortable I might wish the same thing, to be him. So it's very ironic, that song.

How Beautiful You Are...: "That was the one term that was nicked from a true reference, a Beaudelaire short story. I wrote it a long time ago when I read the story. Someone gave me a book of Beaudelaire, Rembeau, and Delaney. So I re-read it and dug it out. I think that's my favorite set of lyrics.

the Snakepit: "is just taken from something that happened to me in America last year. The words are pretty clear. I was out in the car with a stupid girl."

Hey You!!!: "It's the sort of thing you'd see if you were to get up now and you'd had one drink too many. You just sort of stand up and go "EEEEUUUUUUuuuuhhhhh!"

Just Like Heaven: "it's like the link beetween this record and the Head on the Door. It sounds a bit like In Between Days, but it's supposed to, 'cause it's like that sort of pop side of The Cure that I really like. It's supposed to be like a love song, but i lose the girl at the end of it (shrugs) I always do."

All I Want: "actually started out "all i want is to hold you like a doll", but something happened and it turned into "dog". That's about as pure sexist as you're ever gonna get."

Hot Hot Hot!!!: "It's about drugs."

One More Time: "is about- my fear of dying. Which everyone has."

Like Cockatoos: "you know when you're little and it's summer and you're out on the roadside and you sit there and there's a storm where it's just rain. And you go out and it's like, bubbles at your feet. And the next time you see it when you're old, it's like a dream and something upsets you and you look down and you see the bubbles in the road and you sort of cry.That's what the songs about."

Icing Sugar: "it's about drugs as well, I suppose in a funny way. Hot Hot Hot!!! is very trite, Icing Sugar is more like "your delicious drink slapped your green eyes.""

the Perfect Girl: "It's just pure love."

A Thousand Hours: "It's, um, pure frustration. It's like when you see something and you feel really angry about it and you just can't do anything about it."

Shiver and Shake: "it's about all the people that I hate! One person in particular will know who it is!"

Fight: "I thought, having got such a good group and having grown up with people I really admire made me go and do something. And I thought "we've never done a song that encouraged people to do something." It's about time we did something that was a bit anthemic. I was really proud of what we'd done up to that point, and I thought it would be nice of us to do something that would encourage people. Something positive. It's the weirdest Cure song we've ever done."