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I'm not a morose person it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

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Robert Smith
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 21
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Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.
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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 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 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'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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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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When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.
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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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It's a perfect day for letting go.
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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'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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You know, the Internet's made us more aware of what people think about us.
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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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B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two Once prized for the function, Now for the view.
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You don't really know a song until you play it live.
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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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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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If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
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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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