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Robert Smith
English
Musician
Born:
Apr 21
,
1959
Cure
Me
People
Think
Time
You
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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.
Robert Smith
Myself
Age
Fans
Will
Think
Our
Archetypal
Wrong
Like
Particularly
Always
Still
Cure
Fan
Anything
Place
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.
Robert Smith
Care
Worried
Relevant
Perceived
Never
Rock
How
Fit
Cure
dont Care
Where
Want
Placed
Even
The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.
Robert Smith
Me
Bizarre
Seemed
Idea
Always
Reinvention
They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are.
Robert Smith
Like
Knowing
Get
May
Us
Who
Away
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.
Robert Smith
Be Nice
Somewhere
Big
September
Nice
Dining
Dining Room
Record
New
Like
House
New England
Rent
October
Mobile
Big House
Up
Get
Maybe
Different
Room
Really
England
Set
I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.
Robert Smith
Smile
Time
Face
Spent
About
More
Write
Always
Than
Thing
I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.
Robert Smith
People
Word
Every
Think
Hung
Like
Look
Want
Wanted
Us
But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine.
Robert Smith
You
Otherwise
Everyone
Mine
Out
Find
Point
Throw
Never
Know
Arms
Limits
Go
Trying
Just
Where
While
Your
You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us.
Robert Smith
You
People
Made
Think
About
More
Know
Us
Aware
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.
Robert Smith
Entertainment
Old
Become
Else
Our
Once
Mine
Someone
Recorded
Songs
Put
Stuff
Been
Any
Listen
Old Stuff
Now
Ever
Hardly
Vinyl
If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
Robert Smith
Group
Our
Top
Top Ten
Immediately
Ten
Songs
Make
Did
Any
Ever
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.
Robert Smith
Me
Eyes
Song
Sometimes
Faces
Horrifying
Open
End
Get
Quite
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
Me
Otherwise
Once
Pretend
Someone
Networks
Fact
Never
Message
Because
Got
Going
In Fact
Social
Sent
Social Networks
Presence
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.
Robert Smith
Life
Music
Business
Own
Machine
Horrible
My Own
Idea
Becoming
Personal
Just
Whole
Enjoyment
Played
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
Good
Musicians
Political
Clever
Few
Vice Versa
Enough
Side
Slightly
Seemed
Uncomfortable
Idea
Always
Versa
Very
Vice
Them
Suffers
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.
Robert Smith
Travel
People
World
Job
Enjoy
Having
Habit
Weird
Weird Things
Occasionally
Because
Around
Concerts
Said
Am
Very
Person
Where
Really
Who
Play
Things
Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.
Robert Smith
People
Reading
Worlds
Enter
Able
Something
Missed
Being
Really
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.
Robert Smith
Me
Facebook
Otherwise
Once
Pretend
Someone
Networks
Fact
Never
Put
Message
Because
Got
Going
In Fact
Anything
Social
Sent
Page
Social Networks
Presence
Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.
Robert Smith
Song
World
Constantly
Any
Anyone
Rehearse
Play
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.
Robert Smith
Hate
Fall
Think
Say
Those
Faces
Recourse
Deliver
Never
Songs
Knowing
Smiles
Well
Bands
Irony
Dishonest
Flat
Anyway
Really
Meant
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.
Robert Smith
Joy
Fear
Would
Would-Be
More
Division
Joy Division
Ideas
Because
Off
Familiar
Than
Jackson
Listen
Want
Janet Jackson
Them
Competitors
I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable.
Robert Smith
Time
Happy
Walk
Thought
Miserable
Would
More
Around
Lot
Very
Than
Done
Quite
Quite A Lot
Far
Ever
I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.
Robert Smith
Our
Out
Would
Would-Be
Greatest
Doing
Greatest Hits
Cure
Legacy
Hits
Want
Shows
Awful
I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.
Robert Smith
Time
Self-Conscious
Am
Lot
Very
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.'
Robert Smith
You
Writing
Problem
Wait
Perspective
Before
Older
Think
Say
Something
Tend
Songs
Written
Get
Stop
After
Then
Certain
Amount
Start
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.
Robert Smith
You
Sun
Wear
Could
Makeup
Surface
Discovered
Move
Special
Company
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