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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

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

Robert Smith

People

Spirit

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on. "

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

" I had every intention of 'Bloodflowers' being the last Cure record. I thought it would be fantastic to finish with the best thing we'd ever done, but I wasn't sure we could pull it off. "

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

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

" I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October. "

" 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. "

" 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

You

Own

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

" 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. "

" Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying. "

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

" I am very self-conscious a lot of the time. "

Robert Smith

I Am

Time

" 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

" I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was. "

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

" I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.' "

Robert Smith

Feel

World

" You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us. "

Robert Smith

People

Think

" I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" Living, it's awful for me. "

Robert Smith

Awful

Living