Robert Smith Quotes

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• Living, it's awful for me.
• Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.
• Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.
• Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.
• There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.
• When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.
• Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on.
• You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
• I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of…

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