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

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

Way, Old, Found, Adult, Extreme, Some

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

People, Need, Like, Irritating, Some

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, Lose, Feel, Bothered

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, More, Always, Write

People think it's funny that I enjoy dreaming so much. I just use it as a form of entertainment. It's very private. I don't see my dreams as separate. I mean, half the time I'm wandering around dreaming anyway. Robert Smith

Funny, Dreams, Time, People, Think, See

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move. Robert Smith

Sun, Makeup, You, Company, Special, Move

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, Song, End, Sometimes, Open

I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October. Robert Smith

September, Nice, House, Be Nice, New, Up

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, Phone, Manager, Band

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

Time, World, You, Stage, Pretty, Real

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

Knowing, Away, Us, Like, Who, May

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life. Robert Smith

Life, Best, Person, Reflect, Just, Songs

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, Flight, Drink, Go, Ballet, Well

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. Robert Smith

Me, Worry, Down, Never, First, Going

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

Value, People, You, Price, Nonsense, Put

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

People, You, Understand, Feel, Because

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. Robert Smith

Job, Travel, I Am, People, Habit, World

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, Mindset, Having Children

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, Jump, Look, Boots

Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct. Robert Smith

Family, Time, Sea, Live, Wife, Me

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

People, Think, You, Know, More, Us

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, Made

Living, it's awful for me. Robert Smith

Me, Living, Awful

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes. Robert Smith

Child, Parents, Think, Parent, Changes

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, Something

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