Quotes from Robert Smith

But our lives are the reasons why we want to live another time

If only I'd thought of the right words I would have held onto your heart. If only I'd thought of the right words I wouldn't be breaking apart, all my pictures of you.

A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them.

I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did.

I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

I had no desire to be famous I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

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.

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

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.

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.

I had every intention of 'Bloodflowers' being the last Cure record. I thought it would be fantastic to finish with the best thing we'd ever done, but I wasn't sure we could pull it off.

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.

I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did.

The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.

Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.

A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.

I get a much more extreme reaction when I have my hair really short. I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter. It's a much more extreme reaction.