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Robert Smith
English
Musician
About the author
You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us.
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#People
I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway.
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#First
#Cure
#Worry
When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#Songs
But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine.
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#Trying
#Limits
There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#Hope
Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#End
#Open
#Song
#Eyes
#Faces
Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#Limitations
Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#People
No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to.
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#Want
#Will
#End
#Ending
#Cure
Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#God
#Sacrifice
#Will
#Song
#Sound
#Pain
If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#Songs
I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#Time
#Smile
You don't really know a song until you play it live.
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#Play
#Song
I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#Time
#Listening
#Sky
#Houston
I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#Want
#People
#Word
I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#Living
#Myth
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.
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#Past
#Manager
I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#Class
I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#Songs
#Now
#Old
#Entertainment
I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#Death
#Romantic
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.
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#Love
#People
#Fun
#Job
I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#Songs
Each time I play a song it seems more real.
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#Time
#Play
#Song
They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are.
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#May
I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#Old
#Extreme
You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
Robert Smith,
English
Musician
#Ballet