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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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English - Musician Born: April 21, 1959

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I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me. Robert Smith

Music, Myself, Me

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

Way, Old, Adult

If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you. Robert Smith

People, You, Understand

In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated. Robert Smith

People, Need, Like

It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band. Robert Smith

People, Band, Think

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence. Robert Smith

Depression, Easy, Existence

They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are. Robert Smith

Knowing, Like, May

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

Weird, Rhythm, Singer

You don't really know a song until you play it live. Robert Smith

Live, Song, Know

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. Robert Smith

Think, Actor, Him

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, Irony

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. Robert Smith

Faith, Alone, Heart

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. Robert Smith

Thought, Important, Point

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

Start, People, Strange

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

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. Robert Smith

Life, Children, Mindset

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. Robert Smith

Generation, Animal, Die

When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense. Robert Smith

Time, World, You

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

Sun, Makeup, Company

Without faith that there's a world beyond the one we live in, I don't see how it's possible to get rid of angst. Robert Smith

Faith, World, Live

Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts. Robert Smith

Me, People, Look

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier. Robert Smith

Myself, Class, Passport

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds. Robert Smith

Reading, People, Being

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. Robert Smith

Technology, Age, End

People think it's funny that I enjoy dreaming so much. I just use it as a form of entertainment. It's very private. I don't see my dreams as separate. I mean, half the time I'm wandering around dreaming anyway. Robert Smith

Funny, Time, Dreams

You don't always have to sing dark things to be thoughtful. Robert Smith

Dark, You, Thoughtful

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