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I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.
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There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.
Robert Smith The Cure
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I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
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I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.
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I always place myself as the archetypal Cure fan. I'm the wrong age, but I still think that if I like anything particularly, our fans will.
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Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does.
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If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that.
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I had every intention of 'Bloodflowers' being the last Cure record. I thought it would be fantastic to finish with the best thing we'd ever done, but I wasn't sure we could pull it off.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.
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If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.
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You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous.
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I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.
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You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us.
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Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.
Robert Smith The Cure
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No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to.
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Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on.
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I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.
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If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.
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My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.
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If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
Robert Smith The Cure
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When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
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But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine.
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I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.
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Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.
Robert Smith The Cure