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Popularity: 0 Vote:	A couple of years ago, we went to Eurodisney. That too was bearable, although it was a bit weird when Mickey Mouse came to ask for an autograph.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	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.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	Each time I play a song it seems more real.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I don't understand this obsession with banging out records. What a stupid attitude! Like the world is holding its breath waiting for the next Cure album. It isn't.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I go off-roading occasionally, drunkenly at night across fields.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	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."
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I hate Madonna! She looks like she stinks!
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I have a bag full of words, and when one of us comes up with a good piece of music, I look in the bag to see if anything there will fit. If nothing does, I sit down and try to put down on paper what the music makes me feel; very rarely will a piece of writing inspire a piece of music.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	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 doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I think we're in the Top 10 most bootlegged bands in history according to a web-poll. Pretty much every show we ever do is bootlegged, but it's very rare that one is of good enough quality to be listened to by anything other than the most fanatical people though I suppose only fanatical people buy bootlegs.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I wake up and look at myself and think, 'yuck!'.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I'm big in the uncle department... I like having kids for weekends... I just like taking them out and teaching them bad tricks... I hate the idea of being a dad. I'm too undisciplined and too selfish to be a father.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	I've experienced such extremes both in the band and in my personal life, feelings that last for just a few seconds at a time, that it's like a drug. After a while, when they're not there you notice the absence of it and nothing seems real anymore and nothings quite sharp enough or focused enough.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I've had enough of being perceived as a doomy goth casualty.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	If I didn't wear make-up I couldn't get on stage. I'd be much too self conscious.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	It has nothing to do with me if there's a lot of bootlegs of the Cure; I've never objected to them, no-one's ever had their tape recorder confiscated at a Cure show, it doesn't bother me in the slightest.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	It's a bit of a crass generalisation, but people whose favourite Cure albums are Pornography and Disintegration are generally more alert and have thought about things.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	It's a bit of a crass generalization, but people whose favorite Cure albums are Pornography and Disintegration are generally more alert and have thought about things.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	Jimi Hendrix changed my life. Each generation influences the following one and as a consequence brings it back to the past.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	Most of the time I'm a professional idiot. I really don't care about what other people think, which can be a bad thing.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	Originally I was going to take perverse satisfaction in making a depressing album.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	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.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	The Cure, is the kind of band that wanders in and out of the mainstream's gaze.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	The Press try to categorize me a 'gloom-and-doom' singer. But, take a look at Morrissey! That man's a professional moaner!
Popularity: -1 Vote:	There are countries where the organizers don't know what they're doing or what's going on - but I wouldn't name Italy and Spain!
Popularity: 0 Vote:	There have been very few virtuosos in the history of the group, but there have been a lot of really nice people. The Cure backstage is a notoriously fun-filled zone.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	There is a reason for me always shoe-gazing. I simply can't look into the eyes of several thousand people.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	We wouldn't have been able to handle the fame if it would've hit us all of the sudden. When I was young I always dreamed of having a group that was adored by few and ignored by the rest of the world, like Nick Drake. Fortunately, when we became famous, I had no time to reflect upon anything anymore."
Popularity: 0 Vote:	When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	You don't really know a song until you play it live.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us.

Biography

Robert Paul Smith (April 16, 1915 - January 30, 1977) is an American writer. He authored the classic evocation of childhood, Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing.

Robert Paul Smith was born in Brooklyn, grew up in Mount Vernon, NY, and graduated from Columbia College in 1936. He worked as a writer for CBS Radio and wrote four novels: So It Doesn't Whistle (1946); The Journey, (1943); Because of My Love (1946); The Time and the Place (1951).

The Tender Trap, a play by Max Shulman and Robert Paul Smith, opened in 1954 with Robert Preston in the leading role. It was later made into a movie starring Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds. A classic example of the "battle-of-the-sexes" comedy, it revolves around the mutual envy of a bachelor living in New York City and a settled family man living in the New York suburbs.

Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing is a nostalgic evocation of the inner life of childhood. It advocates the value to children of privacy; the importance of unstructured time; the joys of boredom; and the virtues of freedom from adult supervision. He opens by saying "The thing is, I don't understand what kids do with themselves any more." He contrasts the overstructured, overscheduled, oversupervised suburban life of the child in the suburban 1950's with reminiscences of his own childhood. He concludes "I guess what I am saying is that people who don't have nightmares don't have dreams. If you will excuse me, I have an appointment with myself to sit on the front steps and watch some grass growing."

Translations from the English (1958) collects a series of articles originally published in Good Housekeeping magazine. The first, "Translations from the Children," may be the earliest known example of the genre of humor that consists of a series of translations from what is said (e.g. "I don't know why. He just hit me") into what is meant (e.g. "He hit his brother.")

How to Do Nothing With Nobody All Alone By Yourself (1958) is a how-to book, illustrated by Robert Paul Smith's wife Elinor Goulding Smith. It gives step-by-step directions on how to: play mumbly-peg; build a spool tank; make polly-noses; construct an indoor boomerang, etc.

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