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The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get.

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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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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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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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I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.
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Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.
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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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If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
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I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.
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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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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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I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.
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I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.
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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 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'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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