Robert Smith Quotes
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It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all listening to what you're saying. When that group turns into 300 people, it goes on from weird. Some people revel in it, and I don't.
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You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous.
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A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.
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I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October.
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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.
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People think it's funny that I enjoy dreaming so much. I just use it as a form of entertainment. It's very private. I don't see my dreams as separate. I mean, half the time I'm wandering around dreaming anyway.
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I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again when punk started. I've always been drawn to wearing it. It's partly ritualistic, partly theatrical and partly just because I think I look better with it on.
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You don't really know a song until you play it live.
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You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us.
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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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I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.
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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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Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.
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The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.
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They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are.
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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 never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did.
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I don't dislike my peers because they're still around and remind me of what I'm doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2, the things they've done over the years.
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I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.
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I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me.
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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.
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I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me.
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I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.
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Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don't actually seem to get anywhere.