Quote

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

Robert Smith

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robert Smith
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 21
Guitarist
Keyboardist
Manufacturer
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Brooklyn
New York
Robert James Smith
Write
Felt
Writing
Wham
Really
Urge
Urges
Songs
Point
Song

More quotes by Robert Smith

Image
You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
Robert Smith
Image
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.
Robert Smith
Image
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
Robert Smith
Image
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.
Robert Smith
Image
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.
Robert Smith
Image
For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us.
Robert Smith
Image
A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.
Robert Smith
Image
Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.
Robert Smith
Image
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.
Robert Smith
Image
The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.
Robert Smith
Image
It's better to forget than remember me and cry.
Robert Smith
Image
Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on.
Robert Smith
Image
In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.
Robert Smith
Image
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.
Robert Smith
Image
There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.
Robert Smith
Image
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.
Robert Smith
Image
It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.
Robert Smith
Image
When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.
Robert Smith
Image
B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two Once prized for the function, Now for the view.
Robert Smith
Image
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.
Robert Smith