Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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
House
Parents
Sit
Related Quotes:
" 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
Beach
Sitting
Child
" 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. "
Robert Smith
Habit
I Am
World
" 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. "
Robert Smith
Fool
Me
Music
" 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
Down
Division
Never
" I always place myself as the archetypal Cure fan. I'm the wrong age, but I still think that if I like anything particularly, our fans will. "
Robert Smith
Place
Age
Always
" I don't dislike my peers because they're still around and remind me of what I'm doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2, the things they've done over the years. "
Robert Smith
Done
Dislike
Doing
" I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine. "
Robert Smith
Now
Listen
Entertainment
" In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated. "
Robert Smith
Some
Need
Irritating
" I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier. "
Robert Smith
Class
Even
Got
" 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
Life
Mindset
Born
" 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
Weird
Saying
Nice
" Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest. "
Robert Smith
Say
Irony
Hate
" 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
Music
Know
Want
" 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. "
Robert Smith
Makeup
Company
Sun
" I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument. "
Robert Smith
Ignorance
Instrument
People
" 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. "
Robert Smith
Thought
Age
End
" The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me. "
Robert Smith
Idea
Always
Reinvention
" 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. "
Robert Smith
Think
Life
Job
" 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
Myself
Me
Hair
" 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
Presence
Me
Someone
" Each time I play a song it seems more real. "
Robert Smith
Song
More
Play
" I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did. "
Robert Smith
Everything
Never
Say
" 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. "
Robert Smith
Accept
You
Own
" There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off. "
Robert Smith
Down
Stage
Off
" I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another. "
Robert Smith
Found
Extreme
Way
" I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore. "
Robert Smith
Death
Way
Think
" If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you. "
Robert Smith
You
Because
Feel
" If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately. "
Robert Smith
Group
Our
Songs
" 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
Look
Think
School
" They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are. "
Robert Smith
Like
Knowing
Us