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I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

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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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I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.
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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 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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When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.
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I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.
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I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.
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There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.
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Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.
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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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It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.
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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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There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.
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It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.
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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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You know, the Internet's made us more aware of what people think about us.
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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'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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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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