Quotes By Robert Smith

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

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.

They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.

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

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.

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 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'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.

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.

You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us.