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It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

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Robert Smith
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 21
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Robert James Smith
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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'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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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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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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You know, the Internet's made us more aware of what people think about us.
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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 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 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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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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I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England it'd be nice in September or October.
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I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important.
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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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It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.
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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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Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.
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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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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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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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There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.
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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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