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" I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another. "
Robert Smith
Found
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Way
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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. "
Robert Smith
Think
Life
Job
" I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us. "
Robert Smith
Want
Think
People
" Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds. "
Robert Smith
Able
People
Something
" I don't dislike my peers because they're still around and remind me of what I'm doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2, the things they've done over the years. "
Robert Smith
Done
Dislike
Doing
" Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice. "
Robert Smith
Pain
Myself
Song
" 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. "
Robert Smith
Listen
Joy
Fear
" 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. "
Robert Smith
Think
Walk
Look
" Each time I play a song it seems more real. "
Robert Smith
Song
More
Play
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Smith
Place
Age
Always
" You don't really know a song until you play it live. "
Robert Smith
Play
Know
Song
" 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. "
Robert Smith
Me
Live
Time
" There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off. "
Robert Smith
Down
Stage
Off
" 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. "
Robert Smith
Animal
Die
Existence
" Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest. "
Robert Smith
Say
Irony
Hate
" 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. "
Robert Smith
Concert
Guitar
Thought
" 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. "
Robert Smith
See
Time
People
" 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. "
Robert Smith
Page
Presence
Fact
" If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately. "
Robert Smith
Group
Our
Songs
" 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. "
Robert Smith
Attention
Feel
Me
" I am very self-conscious a lot of the time. "
Robert Smith
I Am
Am
Time
" 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. "
Robert Smith
People
Think
Love
" 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.' "
Robert Smith
Writing
Start
Perspective
" It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence. "
Robert Smith
Existence
Slide
Easy
" I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument. "
Robert Smith
Ignorance
Instrument
People
" Whatever I was doing, even when I was at school, I never repressed anything that I felt. I wasn't flamboyant; I was actually quite reticent most of the time. But if I felt I had to do something, I did it. "
Robert Smith
Never
Whatever
Time
" I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did. "
Robert Smith
Everything
Never
Say
" In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated. "
Robert Smith
Some
Need
Irritating
" 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. "
Robert Smith
Now
Listen
Entertainment
" It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band. "
Robert Smith
Think
Band
Cure