Robert Smith

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

— Robert Smith

See the ridiculous in everything.

— Robert Smith

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

— Robert Smith

Living, it's awful for me.

— Robert Smith

I just play Cure music, whatever that is.

— Robert Smith

I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.

— Robert Smith

It's better to forget than remember me and cry.

— Robert Smith

I'm not really obsessed with death.

— Robert Smith

When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

— Robert Smith

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

— Robert Smith

It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

— Robert Smith

They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are.

— Robert Smith

Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.

— Robert Smith

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

— Robert Smith

“But our lives are the reasons why we want to live another time”

— Robert Smith

“There is no secret so close as that between a rider and her horse.”

— Robert Smith

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

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

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

I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going…

— Robert Smith

No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you…

— Robert Smith

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

— Robert Smith

The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something…

— Robert Smith

I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's…

— Robert Smith

There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental…

— Robert Smith

I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured…

— Robert Smith

People think it's funny that I enjoy dreaming so much. I just use it as a form of entertainment. It's very private.…

— Robert Smith

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

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

Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping.…

— Robert Smith

I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again when punk…

— Robert Smith

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

“Be your best self and do not imitate anyone else. Find your strengths. They are your talents. They will make you smile…

— Robert Smith

“So I've come up with a plan,' he said quickly, as if hoping to get his idea in before I could stop…

— Robert Smith

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

— Robert Smith

It's a perfect day for letting go.

— Robert Smith

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

— Robert Smith

“Happy as a girl that lives in a world of make-believe”

— Robert Smith

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

— Robert Smith

There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.

— Robert Smith