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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.

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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My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child.
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There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.
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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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A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.
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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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Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.
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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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I'm not a morose person it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.
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You know, the Internet's made us more aware of what people think about us.
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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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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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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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Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.
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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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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'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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