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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.

Robert Smith

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Robert Smith
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 21
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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've got a Facebook page, but I've never put anything on it. I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because, otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me.
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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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If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
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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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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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I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.
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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 think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.
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Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.
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I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.
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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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B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two Once prized for the function, Now for the view.
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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 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 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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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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