Robert Smith Quotes
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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.
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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.
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You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
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I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did.
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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.
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I'm not really obsessed with death.
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I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Living, it's awful for me.
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I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.
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I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.
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You don't really know a song until you play it live.
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It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.
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I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.
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I get a much more extreme reaction when I have my hair really short. 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. It's a much more extreme reaction.
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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.
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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.
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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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Each time I play a song it seems more real.
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They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are.
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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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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.