Quotes By Robert Smith

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'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 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 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.

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.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

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

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 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 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 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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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