I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us. — Robert Smith Hung Copy Share Image
In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated. — Robert Smith Cases Copy Share Image
I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it. — Robert Smith Smile Copy Share Image
There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off. — Robert Smith Becoming Copy Share Image
I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to… — Robert Smith Desire Copy Share Image
I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse… — Robert Smith Born Copy Share Image
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 Actor 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 Awful Copy Share Image
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 Accept 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
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 Be nice 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 Beatles 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
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 Actually 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 Aspect 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 Arms 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 started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over… — Robert Smith Becomes 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 Competitors 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 Because 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 Always 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 Around 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 Allow 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 Around 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
My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible.… — Robert Smith Back 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
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
“in all relationships there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it...” — Robert Smith Holes 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 think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap. — Robert Smith Crap Copy Share Image
Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world. — Robert Smith Anyone Copy Share Image
I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to… — Robert Smith Bedroom Copy Share Image
