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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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Robert Smith
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 21
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For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us.
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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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If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
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You know, the Internet's made us more aware of what people think about us.
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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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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 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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Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
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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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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 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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Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.
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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'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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