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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. "
Robert Smith
Hard
Time
Never
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" Each time I play a song it seems more real. "
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" Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up. "
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" I've got a Facebook page, but I've never put anything on it. 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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" 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 liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did. "
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Everything
Never
Say
" 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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Life
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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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" If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you. "
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Because
Feel
" The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me. "
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Idea
Always
Reinvention
" 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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Beach
Sitting
Child
" Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage. "
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Years
People
Makeup
" I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone. "
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Alone
Faith
You
" 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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Song
Sometimes
Open
" 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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Myself
Me
Hair
" 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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Think
Walk
Look
" I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things. "
Robert Smith
Habit
I Am
World
" 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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Doing
Want
Out
" 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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Intention
Best
Thought
" 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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Never
Find
Trying
" They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are. "
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Like
Knowing
Us
" Living, it's awful for me. "
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Me
Awful
Living
" Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world. "
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World
Play
Any
" If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately. "
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Group
Our
Songs
" I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway. "
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Down
Division
Never
" I always place myself as the archetypal Cure fan. I'm the wrong age, but I still think that if I like anything particularly, our fans will. "
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Place
Age
Always
" 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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World
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" If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work. "
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Fool
Me
Music
" In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated. "
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Some
Need
Irritating
" 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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Look
Think
School
" It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band. "
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Think
Band
Cure