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Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

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'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 don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.
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In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.
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There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.
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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 could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?
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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.
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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.
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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 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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Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on.
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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 really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.
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It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.
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