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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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Robert Smith
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 21
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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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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 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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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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I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.
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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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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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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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It's better to forget than remember me and cry.
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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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I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.
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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'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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I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.
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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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When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.
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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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There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.
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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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