Robert Smith Quotes

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.

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

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

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

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

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

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

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

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.

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.

It's a perfect day for letting go.

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

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

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

I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

Living, it's awful for me.

Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.

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

Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

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

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.

The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get.

A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.

Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.

See the ridiculous in everything.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.

There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.

Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on.

Better be killed than frightened to death.

You know, the Internet's made us more aware of what people think about us.

If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.

Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.

The horse loves the hound, and I loves both.

It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child.