World Entertainment News online service: October 31, 1997

Gothic rocker Robert Smith of the Cure has a weird secret - he loves to clean.

Smith, who is currently in California to promote the band's compilation album Galore, has revealed his bandmates are too messy for his to consider sharing a house with them again.

And the Boys Don't Cry star reckons missing out on a university education meant he never picked up bad habits.

He says, "I wouldn't do it again because they're too scruffy and messy.

"I didn't go to college. I left school and ended up doing this. So I've never had the experience of the student life.

"I'm always cleaning up after the others. They'd take advantage of me. When we're doing something with the group, I get very obsessive about things.

"But they know that when they're putting things in the wrong place I would get really tense about it until I had to kind of clear up."