Quotes from Robert Smith

I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

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.

I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

If I book a hotel it's actually very funny. It's very nice to be a genuine Mr Smith.

True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.