Robert Smith Thinking Quotations

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.

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.

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.

It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us

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 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.

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

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.

I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

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

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.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore

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.

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.

I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.

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.

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