Robert Smith Quotes (32 Quotes)

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 limits are. I was just trying to find mine.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

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

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

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 never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.

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.

True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

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

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

Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.

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

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

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.

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

The ultimate aspect of the privacy issue is the possibility of complete social control

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 horrifying.

There are countries where the organizers don't know what they're doing or what's going on - but I wouldn't name Italy and Spain

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

Unting is all that's worth living for - all time is lost wot is not spent in 'unting - it is like the hair we breathe - if we have it not we die - it's the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty percent of its danger

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.

If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

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.

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

This isn't unique to Eudora. Currently Eudora doesn't disclose personal information. Still, the intrusion of something on your screen telling you whether an upgrade is available is an invasion of privacy. It may be an acceptable one, but it is an invasion.

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

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

Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them Never trust the umpire.

I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.