Explore Quotes by Robert Smith

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

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

If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.

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

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

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.

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

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.