“I can write words but I don’t really feel like singing them.”
“I’ve kind of wrestled with it since I was like 8 years old.
But as you get older, it becomes more real.”
Robert Smith of the Cure.Mike Lewis Photography/Redferns
And when you’re younger, you romanticize it even without knowing it, you romanticize it all.
The songwriter suggested that performing new music isn’t as easy as it used to be.
“I can write words but I don’t really feel like singing them.
Reeves Gabrels, Robert Smith, and Simon Gallup of the Cure.Andrew Benge/Redferns
However, Smith clarified that he still finds performing meaningful.
“You just suddenly feel something.
You feel connection,” he mused.
There’s something really, really wonderful about it.”
The Cure releasedSongs of a Lost World, their first album of new material since 2008, on Friday.
“I didn’t want the album to be too much,” Smith said.
“The tone of the album, I wanted it to be about loss and change.
Andrew Benge/Redferns
Smith experienced an overwhelming amount of grief in the period since the group’s last album.
“It was an awful time,” he said.
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