Robert Smith Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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You don't really know a song until you play it live.
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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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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 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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You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us.
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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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The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.
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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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If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.
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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 never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did.
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I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.
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They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are.
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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.
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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 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.