Robert Smith Quotes

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods.

Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.

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.

If I book a hotel it's actually very funny. It's very nice to be a genuine Mr Smith.

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.

My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child.

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

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.

When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'

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.

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.

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.

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

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.'

I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to.

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

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 entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.

If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that.

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 wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.

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

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.

It's better to forget than remember me and cry.

I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.

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

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

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

Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.

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.

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

It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on.

But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine.

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

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

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.

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

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.