Robert Smith Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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'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.

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.

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

Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.'

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 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.

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

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 write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.

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

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

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.