183 Quotes by Robert Smith

Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer.

The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get.

People think it's funny that I enjoy dreaming so much. I just use it as a form of entertainment. It's very private. I don't see my dreams as separate. I mean, half the time I'm wandering around dreaming anyway.

In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.

I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two; Once prized for the function, Now for the view.

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.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.