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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.

Robert Smith

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Robert Smith
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 21
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Robert James Smith
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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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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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Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.
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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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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 just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.
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I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.'
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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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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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Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.
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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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The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.
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It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.
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I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
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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 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 lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.
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I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.
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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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I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.
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