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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. "

Robert Smith

Listen

Joy

Fear

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm not really obsessed with death. "

" 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 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. "

" You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous. "

" 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

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

Robert Smith

People

Think

" Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage. "

" I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did. "

" I am very self-conscious a lot of the time. "

Robert Smith

I Am

Time

" The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me. "

" It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band. "

" I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us. "

" 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. "

" 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

Presence

Someone

" 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

Look

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

" Living, it's awful for me. "

Robert Smith

Awful

Living

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

" 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