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" Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up. "
Robert Smith
Think
Why
Accept
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" I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it. "
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" 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. "
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" You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us. "
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" 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.' "
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" I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" You don't really know a song until you play it live. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Time
Never
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Time
" If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you. "
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" 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. "
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" You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous. "
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" Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don't actually seem to get anywhere. "
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Animal
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" 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.' "
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Feel
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Me
" I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop. "
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Paper
" I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap. "
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" The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods. "
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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 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. "
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Always
" In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated. "
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" I'm not really obsessed with death. "
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" 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. "
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" I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes. "
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