183 Quotes by Robert Smith

For a period in the ’90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There’s a bunch of newer bands coming up who’ve grown up listening to the Cure and don’t understand that you’re not supposed to like us.

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

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

Performing doesn’t come that naturally to me, even though I’ve done it for years.

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.’

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

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 don’t care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don’t care if we’re perceived as relevant. We’re never worried how we fit in. I don’t even want to fit in.

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.