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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Robert Smith

Music

Musicians

Good

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

" You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous. "

" 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. "

Robert Smith

You

Ballet

" I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else. "

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

" 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

" 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.' "

" I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

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

" 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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Robert Smith

People

Spirit

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

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

" 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. "

" For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us. "

Robert Smith

You

" 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. "

" I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone. "

" 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. "

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

Robert Smith

People

Think

" 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. "