Siouxsie and the Banshees Quotes
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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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It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.
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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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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 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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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'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 write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.
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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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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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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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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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It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.
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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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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 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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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.
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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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When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.
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My main disappointment in not appearing in the 'Face to Face' video , at the time, would be… did you see how much makeup the boys were allowed to wear!
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From a guitar player's point of view it's generally harder writing parts to songs than finding a part to base a song on.
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My worry was if I hit the road unhappy, that I'd end up in jail or hospital again. It was saddening, but it was never a career move; I had no job to go to!
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I was feeling inadequate for the longest time because I didn’t have that technical prowess. But I was thinking, well, I’m still here so there must be some reason, but I always used to watch the singer. It was vocalists that I kept close with. Everybody has got to be there when they land.
