If I book a hotel it's actually very funny. It's very nice to be a genuine Mr Smith. Robert Smith More Quotes by Robert Smith More Quotes From Robert Smith 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 phones doors past I don't dislike my peers because they're still around and remind me of what I'm doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2, the things they've done over the years. Robert Smith peers done years I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap. Robert Smith rock-n-roll rocks thinking Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest. Robert Smith hate song fall True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye. Robert Smith eye looks past Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years. Robert Smith performing done years I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor. Robert Smith actors different thinking 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 people looks thinking 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 ends want thinking I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in. Robert Smith rocks care want I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another. Robert Smith adults photograph way When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs. Robert Smith drunk guitar song 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 eye faces song It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band. Robert Smith band people thinking 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 division joy ideas It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all listening to what you're saying. When that group turns into 300 people, it goes on from weird. Some people revel in it, and I don't. Robert Smith nice listening people If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work. Robert Smith fool pay ideas I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy. Robert Smith legacy would-be want Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds. Robert Smith able reading people Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct. Robert Smith london wife sea