Robert Smith Quotes - Page 3

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

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.

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.

I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.

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

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.

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

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

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

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

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

Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct.

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.

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.

If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.

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.

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

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

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.

I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important.

There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

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.'

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.