Robert Smith Quotes
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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.
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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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It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all listening to what you're saying. When that group turns into 300 people, it goes on from weird. Some people revel in it, and I don't.
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In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
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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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If I book a hotel it's actually very funny. It's very nice to be a genuine Mr Smith.
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I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.
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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.
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Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.
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You don't really know a song until you play it live.
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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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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.
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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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The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get.
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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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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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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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Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
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Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on.
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Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.
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The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.
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I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.
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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.
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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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When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
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