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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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Robert Smith
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 21
Guitarist
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Brooklyn
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Robert James Smith
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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 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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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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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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I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.
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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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If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
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If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan it can't work.
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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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You don't really know a song until you play it live.
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It's a perfect day for letting go.
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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 could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?
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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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The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to 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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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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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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I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.
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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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