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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.

Robert Smith

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Robert Smith
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 21
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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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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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