The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me. Robert Smith More Quotes by Robert Smith More Quotes From Robert Smith I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop. Robert Smith laptopspaperwriting I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone. Robert Smith adriftheartthinking I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small. Robert Smith bedroomparenthouse 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. Robert Smith pushing-itaccepteddemise Living, it's awful for me. Robert Smith awful 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 curesbandlistening See the ridiculous in everything. Robert Smith ridiculousmadcrazy Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage. Robert Smith makeuppeopleyears Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does. Robert Smith who-i-amjobsthinking 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. Robert Smith bornmindsetchildren 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 funjobsthinking My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child. Robert Smith memoriesbeachchildren I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes. Robert Smith parentchildrenthinking I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point? Robert Smith feltwritingsong I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life. Robert Smith moroseaspects-of-lifesong 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 playjobspeople 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. Robert Smith rollingguitarfans I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.' Robert Smith left-behindstrangeworld I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did. Robert Smith honestlyhatedqueens The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get. Robert Smith i-carecare
