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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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Robert Smith
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 21
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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 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.
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I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.
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You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
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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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Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
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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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The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.
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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 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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It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all listening to what you're saying. When that group turns into 300 people, it goes on from weird. Some people revel in it, and I don't.
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It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.
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My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child.
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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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There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.
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Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.
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I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.
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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
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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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