Top 80 Robert Smith Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I lose myself in music because I can’t be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.”

— Robert Smith

2. “It’s a perfect day for letting go.”

— Robert Smith

3. “In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.”

— Robert Smith

4. “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

5. “It’s better to forget than remember me and cry.”

— Robert Smith

6. “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

7. “It’s really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.”

— Robert Smith

8. “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

9. “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

10. “You don’t really know a song until you play it live.”

— Robert Smith

11. “I’m not a morose person; it’s just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.”

— Robert Smith

12. “The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get.”

— Robert Smith

13. “I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don’t. I think it’s hilarious, actually, what things I’ve heard about him, what he’s really like, and his public persona is so different. He’s such an actor.”

— Robert Smith

14. “If you feel alienated from people around you, it’s because no one tries to understand you.”

— Robert Smith

15. “It’s only people that aren’t goths that think the Cure are a goth band.”

— Robert Smith

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

— Robert Smith

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

— Robert Smith

18. “See the ridiculous in everything.”

— Robert Smith

19. “I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did.”

— Robert Smith

20. “I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.”

— Robert Smith

21. “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

22. “I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn’t want anyone to know who I was.”

— Robert Smith

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

— Robert Smith

24. “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.”

— Robert Smith

25. “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.”

— Robert Smith

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

— Robert Smith

27. “I think the rock’n’roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.”

— Robert Smith

28. “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.”

— Robert Smith

29. “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.”

— Robert Smith

30. “I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.”

— Robert Smith

31. “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.”

— Robert Smith

32. “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.”

— Robert Smith

33. “I don’t think of death in a romantic way anymore.”

— Robert Smith

34. “If I book a hotel it’s actually very funny. It’s very nice to be a genuine Mr Smith.”

— Robert Smith

35. “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.”

— Robert Smith

36. “I’d rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.”

— Robert Smith

37. “When you’re on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It’s pretty intense.”

— Robert Smith

38. “I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn’t want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.”

— Robert Smith

39. “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.”

— Robert Smith

40. “I just don’t feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I’m getting. It’s purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.”

— Robert Smith

41. “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.”

— Robert Smith

42. “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.”

— Robert Smith

43. “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.’”

— Robert Smith

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

— Robert Smith

45. “B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two; Once prized for the function, Now for the view.”

— Robert Smith

46. “Living, it’s awful for me.”

— Robert Smith

47. “When you’re in a young band for the first time, geographically you’re in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You’re a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn’t.”

— Robert Smith

48. “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

49. “I could write songs as bad as Wham’s if I really felt the urge to, but what’s the point?”

— Robert Smith

50. “Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.”

— Robert Smith