Robert Smith Quotes

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• I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
• I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.
• Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
• If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value…
• But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your…
• It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.
• I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I…
• 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 moaning…
• I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.
• I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.
• I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.
• I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and…
• I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.
• I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.
• I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.
• I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.
• I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.
• 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.
• In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.
• It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

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