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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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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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Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.
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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 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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I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.
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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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There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.
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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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It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.
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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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A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.
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I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.
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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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Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.
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Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.
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I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.
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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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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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You know, the Internet's made us more aware of what people think about us.
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