183 Quotes by Robert Smith
"Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage."
"I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone."
"When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense."
"Without faith that there's a world beyond the one we live in, I don't see how it's possible to get rid of angst."
"Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct."
"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."
"I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result."
"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 you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that."