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A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.

Robert Smith

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Robert Smith
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 21
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Brooklyn
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Robert James Smith
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I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.
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I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.
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You know, the Internet's made us more aware of what people think about us.
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B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two Once prized for the function, Now for the view.
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It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.
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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.'
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I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.
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I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.
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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.
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I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.
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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.
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Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.
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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.
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