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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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Robert Smith
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 21
Guitarist
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Brooklyn
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Robert James Smith
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I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.
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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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You don't really know a song until you play it live.
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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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I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.
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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'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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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 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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I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
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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'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 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 that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.
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There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.
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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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In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.
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Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.
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When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.
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