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" I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop. "
Robert Smith
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Pen
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" 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. "
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Down
Division
Never
" I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life. "
Robert Smith
Just
Best
Person
" 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. "
Robert Smith
Habit
I Am
World
" Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it. "
Robert Smith
Accept
You
Own
" Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world. "
Robert Smith
World
Play
Any
" 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. "
Robert Smith
Look
Think
School
" 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
Dislike
Doing
" I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument. "
Robert Smith
Ignorance
Instrument
People
" There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off. "
Robert Smith
Down
Stage
Off
" I just play Cure music, whatever that is. "
Robert Smith
Whatever
Cure
Just
" 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
Me
" I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes. "
Robert Smith
Parent
Think
Child
" I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small. "
Robert Smith
House
Parents
Sit
" 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
Me
Someone
" 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. "
Robert Smith
Makeup
Company
Sun
" You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense. "
Robert Smith
Price
You
Any
" You don't really know a song until you play it live. "
Robert Smith
Play
Know
Song
" No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to. "
Robert Smith
I Can
Me
Think
" 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
" 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
" I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me. "
Robert Smith
Lose
Myself
Music
" But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine. "
Robert Smith
Never
Find
Trying
" 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
Me
Hair
" I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap. "
Robert Smith
Think
I Think
Crap
" It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence. "
Robert Smith
Existence
Slide
Easy
" 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 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. "
Robert Smith
Thought
Age
End
" 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
Me
Live
Time
" 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.' "
Robert Smith
Listening
Thought
Pink
" 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
More
Smile