Robert Smith Quotes

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

Smile, Time, Write

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

Why, Accept, Grow

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.
Robert Smith

Trying, Find, Everyone

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.
Robert Smith

Person, Fashion, Sick

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

Rock, Living, Crap

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

Time, Rather, Looking

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.
Robert Smith

End, Ending, Cure

Each time I play a song it seems more real.
Robert Smith

Time, Real, Play

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.
Robert Smith

Music, Famous, Greatest

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.
Robert Smith

Life, Children, Someone

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.
Robert Smith

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

Written, Class, Musician

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.
Robert Smith

End, Eyes, Sometimes

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

May, Away, Knowing

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

Live, Play, Song

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

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.
Robert Smith

Past, Someone, Door

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.
Robert Smith

God, Pain, Sacrifice

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

Old, Another, Found

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

Bad, Write, Point

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

Death, Romantic, Anymore

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.
Robert Smith

Big, Walk, Head

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

Wanted, Word, Hung

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

Group, Top, Songs

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.
Robert Smith

Life, Music, Business

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Nationality: English

Born: April 21, 1959

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