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

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.

From 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.

From Robert Smith

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.

From Robert Smith

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

From Robert Smith

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.

From Robert Smith

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

From Robert Smith

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 it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

From Robert Smith

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.

From Robert Smith

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

From Robert Smith

Robert Smith

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