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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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Singer-Songwriter
Brooklyn
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Robert James Smith
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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 started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important.
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It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.
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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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In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.
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I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
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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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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 don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.
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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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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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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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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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It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.
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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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If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
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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 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 never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.
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I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.
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