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

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, Existence, Slide

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

Like, Some, Cases

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

Singer, Started, Wrote

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

Some, Became, Recently

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

Mindset, Been, Having

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

Sky, Listening, Rather

I don't dislike my peers because they're still around and remind me of what I'm doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2, the things they've done over the years. Robert Smith

Doing, Over, Still

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

Flight, Go, Pass

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

Door, Ring, Knocks

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

Myself, Feel, Lose

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

Inside, Sound, Some

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

Understand, Feel, Tries

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

Knowing, May, Away

You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous. Robert Smith

Start, How, Marvellous

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

Smiles, I Think, Deliver

I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again when punk started. I've always been drawn to wearing it. It's partly ritualistic, partly theatrical and partly just because I think I look better with it on. Robert Smith

Makeup, Been, Theatrical

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

Year, Slightly, I Think

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

Doing, Felt, Flamboyant

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. Robert Smith

Thought, Over, Started

I've got a Facebook page, but I've never put anything on it. 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

Otherwise, Social Networks

I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in. Robert Smith

Want, Cure, Placed

Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer. Robert Smith

Singer, Before, Nine

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

Think, Wanted, Like

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

Love, Think, Kind

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, More, Always

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

Hope, Down, Becoming

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