A biography for Robert Smithhasn’t been written yet.
“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.'”
“I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.”
“Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.”
“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.”
“You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense.”
“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.”
“You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us.”
“In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that.”
“People think it's funny that I enjoy dreaming so much. I just use it as a form of entertainment. It's very private. I don't see my dreams as separate. I mean, half the time I'm wandering around dreaming anyway.”
“The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.”
“There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.”
“I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October.”
“Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.”
“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 feel small.”
“Whatever I was doing, even when I was at school, I never repressed anything that I felt. I wasn't flamboyant; I was actually quite reticent most of the time. But if I felt I had to do something, I did it.”
“When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'”