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 Copy Share Image
Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
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 Image
Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in… — Robert Smith Countryside 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 God Copy Share Image
I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful… — 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
I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person… — Robert Smith Around the world Copy Share Image
I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage. — Robert Smith Makeup Copy Share Image
Whatever I was doing, even when I was at school, I never repressed anything that I felt. I wasn't flamboyant; I was… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier. — Robert Smith Class Copy Share Image
I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes. — Robert Smith Being Copy Share Image
I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
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,… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our… — Robert Smith Concerts Copy Share Image
If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up… — Robert Smith Fun Copy Share Image
I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be… — 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 Consumers Copy Share Image
I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them. — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible.… — 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 Clever 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 Faces Copy Share Image
I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl… — Robert Smith Entertainment Copy Share Image
“in all relationships there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it...” — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want… — Robert Smith Attention Copy Share Image
