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" I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument. "
Robert Smith
Ignorance
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" You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous. "
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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 wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us. "
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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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" You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me. "
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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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" When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs. "
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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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" 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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" I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it. "
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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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