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" I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in. "

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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

" Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds. "

" I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that. "

" 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. "

" No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to. "

Robert Smith

I Can

Think

" There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off. "

" 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. "

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

" I just play Cure music, whatever that is. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Robert Smith

Myself

Hair

" I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Robert Smith

People

Think

" I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument. "

" I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was. "

" 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.' "

" I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap. "

" Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another. "

" I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point? "

" There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods. "