Robert Smith Quotes

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

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

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

The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag of hospitality to insure a very considerable amount of custom.

The country has its charms-cheapness for one.

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

No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.

It's better to forget than remember me and cry.

There is no secret closer than what passes between a man and his horse

It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.

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

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.

Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.

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

I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.

No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.

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

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

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.

If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that.

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.

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.

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

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

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

Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name.

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

I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.

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.