Quotes by Robert Smith

• B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two; Once prized for the function, Now for the view.
• You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us.
• 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.
• When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
• But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine.
• There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.
• 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.
• Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
• 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.
• Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.
• If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
• I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.
• You don't really know a song until you play it live.
• I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
• I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.
• I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.
• 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.
• I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.
• 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.
• I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.
• 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 could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?
• Each time I play a song it seems more real.
• They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are.
• I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.
• You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
• Success is not about avoiding failures, but about learning and growing from them.
• Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and watch your dreams come to life.
• Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it—so wear your favorite superhero cape to the next setback!