Quotes by Robert Smith

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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

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

Robert Smith

I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

Robert Smith

I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.

Robert Smith

You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us.

Robert Smith

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 never liked U2, the things they've done over the years.

Robert Smith

Living, it's awful for me.

Robert Smith

You don't always have to sing dark things to be thoughtful.

Robert Smith

I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important.

Robert Smith

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 I've never once sent a message. I'm there because, otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me.

Robert Smith

Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don't actually seem to get anywhere.

Robert Smith

You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous.

Robert Smith

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 a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.

Robert Smith

The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something and then you stop and say, 'Wait, I think I've written that before.'

Robert Smith

I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.

Robert Smith

You don't really know a song until you play it live.

Robert Smith

I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway.

Robert Smith

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, someone's going to pretend to be me.

Robert Smith

My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child.

Robert Smith

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

Robert Smith

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

Robert Smith