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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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Robert James Smith
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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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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 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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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 don't really know a song until you play it live.
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I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.
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I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.
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I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me.
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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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I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.
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Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.
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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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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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There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods.
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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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The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.
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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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