Robert Smith Thinking Quotations

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

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

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

Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer.

Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You're a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn't.

Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does.

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

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

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

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 really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.

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

I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again when punk started. I've always been drawn to wearing it. It's partly ritualistic, partly theatrical and partly just because I think I look better with it on.

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 about your job.

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

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 think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me.

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.

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.