Robert Smith
Robert Smith
Singer-songwriter and guitarist for the goth and new wave British band The Cure who sang "Friday I'm in Love," "Just Like Heaven," and "Lovecats."
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth21 April 1959
CityBlackpool, England
appealed appealing mind people spirit
The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me.
allow consider otherwise people
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.
cure music whatever
I just play Cure music, whatever that is.
They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are.
You don't always have to sing dark things to be thoughtful.
discovered special surface wear
I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.
goes
See if it goes through. If they say 'No,' go elsewhere.
clever ideas political
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.
technology ideas people
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.
thinking people want
I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.
song guitar drunk
When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
song eye faces
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.
real world intense
When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.
down-and becoming stage
There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.