Lol Tolhurst > Quotes

“Joy Division opened up for us. Despite this it was a disappointing opening. We played our hearts out to a half-empty room.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“The desert seemed to be working its ancient magic on me.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“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

“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.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“the idea that there was no intrinsic path to follow in life. Something might be wrong or right, but there are no rules. Nevertheless, you had to do something. You had to make a choice.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Goth: A History

“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.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“Contrary to popular belief we were not pale-faced Goths who sat in dark rooms with candles and cried all the time.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“they were just skeletal ideas, the bones of the songs to come.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“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.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“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.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“In many ways Pornography is my favourite Cure album.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“Reflections’, a gigantic concert showcasing our first three albums played back-to-back-to-back in their entirety for the first time ever.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“We had been given another chance and had a beautiful son we named Gray.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“Most people don’t associate The Cure with punk, but Robert and I were the very first punks in Crawley.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“happiness cannot be manufactured, nor can it be pursued as a goal. Rather, it is a by-product of our other life experiences.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“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”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“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.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“A beautiful place for me to finally fall apart.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“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.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“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.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“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.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

“The only reality is what we perceive here and now, and we don’t have the power to determine the outcome. We are only in charge of our own activities, and to that end, we have to take action to make life authentic.”
― Lol Tolhurst, Goth: A History