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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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Robert Smith
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 21
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It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.
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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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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 wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.
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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'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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Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.
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Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.
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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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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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If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
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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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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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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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When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.
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The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to 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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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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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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