Robert Smith's Quotes

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.

Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

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

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.

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 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.

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.

I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.

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.

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.

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.

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.