Quotes from Robert Smith

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.

You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous.

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.

You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.

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

Living, it's awful for me.

I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable.

The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something and then you stop and say, 'Wait, I think I've written that before.'

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 think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods.

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.

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.

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on.

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

I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again when punk started. I've always been drawn to wearing it. It's partly ritualistic, partly theatrical and partly just because I think I look better with it on.

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.

I just play Cure music, whatever that is.

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.

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

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and her horse.