I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap. — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life. — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me. — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point? — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I had every intention of 'Bloodflowers' being the last Cure record. I thought it would be fantastic to finish with the best… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One… — Robert Smith Copy Share
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,… — Robert Smith Copy Share
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… — Robert Smith Copy Share
I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier. — Robert Smith Copy Share
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… — Robert Smith Copy Share
I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy. — Robert Smith Copy Share
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… — Robert Smith Copy Share
I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes. — Robert Smith Copy Share
I get a much more extreme reaction when I have my hair really short. I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear… — Robert Smith Copy Share
“So I've come up with a plan,' he said quickly, as if hoping to get his idea in before I could stop him. 'I'll… — Robert Smith Copy Share
The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me. — Robert Smith Copy Share
I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston. — Robert Smith Copy Share
