Robert Smith Quotes

English - Musician Born: April 21, 1959

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence. Robert Smith

Depression, Easy, Existence, Slide

In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated. Robert Smith

People, Need, Like, Irritating, Who

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

Way, Old, Adult, Found, Another, Some

Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest. Robert Smith

Hate, Think, Fall, Irony, Say, Knowing

There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods. Robert Smith

Life, Time, Myself, Black, Control, Down

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

Walk, Past, Door, Someone, Ring, Phone

I get a much more extreme reaction when I have my hair really short. 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. It's a much more extreme reaction. Robert Smith

Walk, People, Hair, Short, Think, Look

I always place myself as the archetypal Cure fan. I'm the wrong age, but I still think that if I like anything particularly, our fans will. Robert Smith

Age, Myself, Think, Place, Will, Wrong

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. Robert Smith

Someone, Listen, Become, Now, Vinyl, Old

Whatever I was doing, even when I was at school, I never repressed anything that I felt. I wasn't flamboyant; I was actually quite reticent most of the time. But if I felt I had to do something, I did it. Robert Smith

Time, School, Doing, Never, Anything

You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense. Robert Smith

People, Value, You, Price, Nonsense, Any

Living, it's awful for me. Robert Smith

Me, Living, Awful

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me. Robert Smith

Music, Myself, Me, Feel, Lose, Because

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

Time, Sky, Looking, Listening, Houston

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

Grow, Think, Why, Accept, Grow Up, Up

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

Group, Top, Our, Songs, Make, Ten

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, Face, Always, More, Write

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

Hope, Me, Down, Stage, Sit, Off

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

Think, Edge, Living, Myth, I Think, Crap

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

Knowing, May, Away, Like, Us, Who

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, Myself, Sacrifice, Song, Kind

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

Romantic, Death, Think, Way, Anymore

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

Eyes, Me, End, Song, Sometimes, Open

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

Walk, People, Think, Look, Boots, Jump

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

Myself, Me, Hair, Grow, Fashion, Sick

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

People, Think, Band, Only, Cure, Goth

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