Robert Smith Quotes

English - Musician Born: April 21, 1959

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

Way, Some, Old, Adult, Old Photographs

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

People, Need, Irritating, Some, Like

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

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

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. Robert Smith

Me, Someone, Never, Pretend, Presence

I am very self-conscious a lot of the time. Robert Smith

Time, I Am, Very, Lot, Am

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

Time, World, You, Drops, Real, Stage

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

People, Think, You, Know, More, Us

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. Robert Smith

Waiting, Yourself, You, Start, Wings

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

Myself, Music, Me, Feel, Lose, Because

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

Depression, Easy, Existence, Slide

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it. Robert Smith

Death, You, My Own, Back, Accept, Own

It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all listening to what you're saying. When that group turns into 300 people, it goes on from weird. Some people revel in it, and I don't. Robert Smith

People, Saying, Meeting, You, Weird

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

People, Think, Band, Only, Cure, Goth

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, Myself, Black, Time, My Life, Down

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

Live, Song, You, Play, Know, Really

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

Like, Us, Get, Away, Knowing, May

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

Myself, God, Pain, Song, Sacrifice, Cry

You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet. Robert Smith

You, Drink, Go, Flight, Out, Pass

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

People, Reading, Missed, Something, Able

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, Smiles, Never, Say

I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small. Robert Smith

Parents, Small, Feel, Back, House, Go

If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you. Robert Smith

People, You, Feel, Understand, Because

I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did. Robert Smith

Queen, I Can, Never, Say, Everything

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

Drunk, Weird, Singer, Rhythm, Songs, Who

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, Know, Desire, Want, Just

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, Hair, People, Look, Think, Short

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