Robert Smith

I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did.

The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me.

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

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

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

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.

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 the Cure or want a bit of me.

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

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

I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.'

I don't dislike my peers because they're still around and remind me of what I'm doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2, the things they've done over the years.

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