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There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.

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Robert Smith
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 21
Guitarist
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Brooklyn
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Robert James Smith
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I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England it'd be nice in September or October.
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I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
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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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Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.
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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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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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It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.
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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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You don't really know a song until you play it live.
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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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Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer.
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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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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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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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I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.
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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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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'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 wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.
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Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on.
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