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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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Robert Smith
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 21
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When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You're a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn't.
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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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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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Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.
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I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.
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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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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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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 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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For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us.
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It's better to forget than remember me and cry.
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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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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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The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get.
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Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.
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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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