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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. "

Robert Smith

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Someone

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

" 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. "

" You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet. "

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Ballet

" Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does. "

" 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. "

" Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me. "

Robert Smith

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

Robert Smith

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

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

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

" When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs. "

" I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor. "

" 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. "

" 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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" 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 always place myself as the archetypal Cure fan. I'm the wrong age, but I still think that if I like anything particularly, our fans will. "