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Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

Robert Smith

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Robert Smith
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 21
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Robert James Smith
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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'm not a morose person it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.
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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 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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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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If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
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I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
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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 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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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 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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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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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 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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