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" 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
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Doing
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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 just play Cure music, whatever that is. "
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" I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier. "
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" Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years. "
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" I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes. "
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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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" 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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Out
" You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous. "
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" There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off. "
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Stage
Off
" 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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Songs
Point
" Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world. "
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Any
" 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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Time
Never
" Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds. "
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Able
People
Something
" 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
" The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me. "
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Idea
Always
Reinvention
" 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. "
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See
Time
People
" 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. "
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People
Think
Love
" 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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Page
Presence
Fact
" 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. "
Robert Smith
Care
Relevant
Rock
" Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts. "
Robert Smith
Most
Like
Look
" 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. "
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My Life
Life
" You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet. "
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You
Ballet
" When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs. "
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Rhythm
Singer
Weird
" 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.' "
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World
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Play
Know
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" Living, it's awful for me. "
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Me
Awful
Living
" 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. "
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Place
Age
Always
" 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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September
House
October
" 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.' "
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Thought
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