Robert Smith Quotes


"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
(Related: Cure, First, Worry)

"When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs."
- Robert Smith
(Related: Songs)

"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
(Related: Limits, Trying)

"There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off."
- Robert Smith
(Related: Hope)

"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
(Related: End, Eyes, Faces, Open, Song)

"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
(Related: Limitations)

"Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts."
- Robert Smith
(Related: People)

"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
(Related: Cure, End, Ending, Want, Will)

"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
(Related: God, Sacrifice, Pain, Song, Sound, Will)

"If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately."
- Robert Smith
(Related: Songs)

"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
(Related: Time, Smile)

"You don't really know a song until you play it live."
- Robert Smith
(Related: Play, Song)

"I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston."
- Robert Smith
(Related: Time, Houston, Listening, Sky)

"I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us."
- Robert Smith
(Related: People, Want, Word)

"I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap."
- Robert Smith
(Related: Living, Myth)

"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
(Related: Manager, Past)

"I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier."
- Robert Smith
(Related: Class)

"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
(Related: Entertainment, Now, Old, Songs)

"I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore."
- Robert Smith
(Related: Death, Romantic)

"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
(Related: Love, People, Fun, Job)

"I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?"
- Robert Smith
(Related: Songs)

"Each time I play a song it seems more real."
- Robert Smith
(Related: Time, Play, Song)

"They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are."
- Robert Smith
(Related: May)

"I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another."
- Robert Smith
(Related: Extreme, Old)

"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
(Related: Ballet)