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" I had every intention of 'Bloodflowers' being the last Cure record. I thought it would be fantastic to finish with the best thing we'd ever done, but I wasn't sure we could pull it off. "
Robert Smith
Intention
Best
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" I'm not really obsessed with death. "
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" 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. "
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Thought
" They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are. "
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Knowing
Us
" 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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Time
People
" Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts. "
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Like
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" I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument. "
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Instrument
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" I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston. "
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Time
Houston
" 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
" 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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Alone
Faith
You
" I am very self-conscious a lot of the time. "
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I Am
Am
Time
" Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage. "
Robert Smith
Years
People
Makeup
" The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me. "
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Me
People
Spirit
" I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else. "
Robert Smith
Life
Mindset
Born
" 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. "
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Song
Sometimes
Open
" You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous. "
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You
Start
Put
" My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child. "
Robert Smith
Beach
Sitting
Child
" You don't always have to sing dark things to be thoughtful. "
Robert Smith
Sing
Always
Thoughtful
" When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs. "
Robert Smith
Rhythm
Singer
Weird
" 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
" I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another. "
Robert Smith
Found
Extreme
Way
" 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. "
Robert Smith
More
Thought
Walk
" 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. "
Robert Smith
Down
Division
Never
" It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence. "
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Existence
Slide
Easy
" 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
" In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated. "
Robert Smith
Some
Need
Irritating
" 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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Weird
Saying
Nice
" 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. "
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Say
Irony
Hate
" You don't really know a song until you play it live. "
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Play
Know
Song
" 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'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