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" 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. "

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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. "

Robert Smith

Over

Important

Thought

" I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me. "

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

" 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

" The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me. "

Robert Smith

People

Spirit

" Each time I play a song it seems more real. "

Robert Smith

Song

Play

" 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.' "

Robert Smith

Feel

World

" I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it. "

Robert Smith

Time

Smile

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You're a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn't. "

" You don't really know a song until you play it live. "

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

" I'm not really obsessed with death. "

" I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again when punk started. I've always been drawn to wearing it. It's partly ritualistic, partly theatrical and partly just because I think I look better with it on. "

" 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

Live

Time

" If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work. "

Robert Smith

Fool

Music

" I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston. "

" For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us. "

Robert Smith

You

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor. "

" I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "