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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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Robert Smith
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 21
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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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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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You don't really know a song until you play it live.
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I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.
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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 am very self-conscious a lot of the time.
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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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Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.
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I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.
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I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.
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No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to.
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There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.
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Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.
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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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B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two Once prized for the function, Now for the view.
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It's better to forget than remember me and cry.
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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'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
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You know, the Internet's made us more aware of what people think about us.
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It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.
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