Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it’s just genes, isn’t it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don’t actually seem to get anywhere. – Robert Smith
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. – Robert Smith
When you’re on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It’s pretty intense. – Robert Smith
Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage. – Robert Smith
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. – Robert Smith
I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument. – Robert Smith
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
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. – Robert Smith
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. – Robert Smith
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
I always place myself as the archetypal Cure fan. I’m the wrong age, but I still think that if I like anything particularly, our fans will. – Robert Smith
If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I’d disband the group immediately. – Robert Smith
There’s no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I’d sit down and doze off. – Robert Smith
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. – Robert Smith
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
I’m not a morose person; it’s just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life. – Robert Smith
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. – Robert Smith
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
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. – Robert Smith
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. – Robert Smith
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. – Robert Smith
