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You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.

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Robert Smith
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 21
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Brooklyn
New York
Robert James Smith
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Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.
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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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If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
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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 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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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 on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.
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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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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 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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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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