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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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Robert James Smith
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In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.
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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 do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.
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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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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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The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.
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There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.
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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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Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.
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You know, the Internet's made us more aware of what people think about us.
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I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.
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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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I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.
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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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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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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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It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.
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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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I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.
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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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