Robert Smith Quotes
Top 71 wise famous quotes and sayings by Robert Smith
Robert Smith Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on.
In all relationships there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it ...
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.
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.
You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense.
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 always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.
Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.
I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.
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.
I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.
The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get.
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.
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.
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.
I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.
I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.
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.
When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
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.
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.
You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage ... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
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.
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 honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.
True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.
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.