Robert Smith Quotes
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The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me.
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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've got a Facebook page, but I've never put anything on it. I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because, otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me.
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You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable.
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Whatever I was doing, even when I was at school, I never repressed anything that I felt. I wasn't flamboyant; I was actually quite reticent most of the time. But if I felt I had to do something, I did it.
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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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Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.
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In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.
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The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something and then you stop and say, 'Wait, I think I've written that before.'
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Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.
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I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.
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Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.
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You don't always have to sing dark things to be thoughtful.