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" Each time I play a song it seems more real. "
Robert Smith
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" I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result. "
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" You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense. "
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" You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us. "
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" I'm not really obsessed with death. "
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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 am very self-conscious a lot of the time. "
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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 wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us. "
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" Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct. "
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" 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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" I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. "
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" My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible. "
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" I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October. "
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" The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me. "
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Idea
Always
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" I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine. "
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Now
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" Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage. "
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" 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. "
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Habit
I Am
World
" 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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Sun
" 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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Look
" Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds. "
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" The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me. "
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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'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life. "
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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 think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap. "
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" I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point? "
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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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" Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does. "
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" I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument. "
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