Robert Smith Quotes
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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.'
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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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Each time I play a song it seems more real.
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If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
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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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You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us.
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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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When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
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When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You're a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn't.
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You don't really know a song until you play it live.
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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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The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.
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I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did.
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They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are.
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Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.
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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 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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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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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.
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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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I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.
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I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.
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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 just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.