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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.

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Robert Smith
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 21
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Robert James Smith
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It's better to forget than remember me and cry.
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When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You're a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn't.
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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.
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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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I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.
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I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.
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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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The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get.
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For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us.
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I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.
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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've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.
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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.
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I'm not a morose person it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.
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I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.
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If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
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Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.
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Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.
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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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If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan it can't work.
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