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" 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

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Spirit

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" 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

" I get a much more extreme reaction when I have my hair really short. 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. It's a much more extreme reaction. "

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

" I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there. "

" 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. "

" If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately. "

" When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense. "

" Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Robert Smith

Good

Life

" 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. "

" I'm not really obsessed with death. "

" 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. "

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

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

" You don't always have to sing dark things to be thoughtful. "

" 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

Think

" 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 hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine. "

" If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you. "

" 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.' "

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

Robert Smith

Song

Play

" I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point? "

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

" I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy. "