A biography for Robert Smithhasn’t been written yet.
“I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.”
“I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.”
“My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.”
“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.”
“It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.”
“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.”
“I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.”
“Living, it's awful for me.”
“I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did.”
“If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.”
“You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.”
“I get a much more extreme reaction when I have my hair really short. 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. It's a much more extreme reaction.”
“When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.”
“You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous.”