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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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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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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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I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.
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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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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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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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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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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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It's better to forget than remember me and cry.
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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'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 a perfect day for letting go.
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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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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 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 am very self-conscious a lot of the time.
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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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