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" I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us. "
Robert Smith
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" Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world. "
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" 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. "
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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 never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did. "
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" Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds. "
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" I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore. "
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" I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result. "
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" The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me. "
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" It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa. "
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" Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer. "
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" If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you. "
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" 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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" 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
Pink
" When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense. "
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Time
Stage
" It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band. "
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Cure
" 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. "
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Done
Dislike
Doing
" 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. "
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Look
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School
" 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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Doing
Want
Out
" 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. "
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Life
Mindset
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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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Concert
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" 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
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" 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. "
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" I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I'm not really obsessed with death. "
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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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Parent
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Child
" It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence. "
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" I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument. "
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