Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.

The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags.

It's so easy to laugh, It's so easy to hate, It takes guts to be gentle and kind.

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.

Robert Smith is a whingebag.

Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.

When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.

Stopping, sitting down and finding time for reflection are considered to be the most essential action related to fulfilling a human’s destination

How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.

We ought to thank President Bush. He made it a lot easier for people to do taxes this year. No job, no income tax this year.

Hollywood is all about making an entrance. I don't want to be a walking advertisement for anyone other than myself.

Young men do not usually become inactive in the Church because they are given too many significant things to do.

I didn't respond well to a firm hand and insults.

No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire series of geological formations.