Robert Smith Quotes
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I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.
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I get a much more extreme reaction when I have my hair really short. 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. It's a much more extreme reaction.
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I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.
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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.
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Without faith that there's a world beyond the one we live in, I don't see how it's possible to get rid of angst.
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They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are.
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Living, it's awful for me.
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For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us.
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It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.
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I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.
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The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.
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I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.
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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 can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
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I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.
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Each time I play a song it seems more real.
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I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.
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I'm not really obsessed with death.
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It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.
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You don't really know a song until you play it live.
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Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.
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I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.
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I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.
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I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.