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You know, the Internet's made us more aware of what people think about us.

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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 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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I've got a Facebook page, but I've never put anything on it. I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because, otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me.
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I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
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I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.
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It's better to forget than remember me and cry.
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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'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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If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
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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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Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.
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It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.
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I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.
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In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.
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I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.
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I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.
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