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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. "

Robert Smith

Never

Find

Trying

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Robert Smith

Good

Life

" 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. "

" I am very self-conscious a lot of the time. "

Robert Smith

I Am

Time

" I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us. "

" In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated. "

" They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are. "

Robert Smith

Knowing

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense. "

" 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. "

" Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world. "

" I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier. "

" I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them. "

" 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. "

Robert Smith

Fool

Music

" You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us. "

Robert Smith

People

Think

" I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston. "

" 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. "

" I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy. "

" I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important. "

" I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.' "

Robert Smith

Feel

World

" It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something and then you stop and say, 'Wait, I think I've written that before.' "

" 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. "

" I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes. "