Robert Smith Quotes

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.

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

It's a perfect day for letting go.

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.

In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.

B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two; Once prized for the function, Now for the view.

You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.

Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct.

I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again when punk started. I've always been drawn to wearing it. It's partly ritualistic, partly theatrical and partly just because I think I look better with it on.

I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.

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.

You don't really know a song until you play it live.

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.

I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.

Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don't actually seem to get anywhere.

If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

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.'

Living, it's awful for me.

I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did.

Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.

Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

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.

The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.

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

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

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.

The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

See the ridiculous in everything.

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.

I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.

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.

I don't dislike my peers because they're still around and remind me of what I'm doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2, the things they've done over the years.

I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.

I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

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.

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

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.