183 Quotes by Robert Smith

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.

When you’re on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It’s pretty intense.

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 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 just don’t feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I’m getting. It’s purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.

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.

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.

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.

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.