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" 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. "

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

" 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 think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap. "

" Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" Whatever I was doing, even when I was at school, I never repressed anything that I felt. I wasn't flamboyant; I was actually quite reticent most of the time. But if I felt I had to do something, I did it. "

" 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

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" They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are. "

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" I'm not really obsessed with death. "

" Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated. "

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

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

" 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. "

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" Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts. "

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" I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another. "

" Without faith that there's a world beyond the one we live in, I don't see how it's possible to get rid of angst. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. "

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" 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. "

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

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