A biography for Robert Smithhasn’t been written yet.
“I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.”
“I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.”
“I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable.”
“The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me.”
“Without faith that there's a world beyond the one we live in, I don't see how it's possible to get rid of angst.”
“If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.”
“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.”
“I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.”
“I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.”
“I just play Cure music, whatever that is.”
“I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.”
“I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.”
“Each time I play a song it seems more real.”
“It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all listening to what you're saying. When that group turns into 300 people, it goes on from weird. Some people revel in it, and I don't.”
“Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.”
“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.”
“I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.'”
“I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.”