183 Quotes by Robert Smith

There’s no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I’d sit down and doze off.

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.

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.

Living, it’s awful for me.

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.

You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us.

I’d like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it’d be nice in September or October.

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.

I honestly don’t class myself as a songwriter. I’ve got ‘musician’ written on my passport. That’s even funnier.