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
thinking people looks
I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.
thinking people looks
Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.
hard-times giving looks
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.
eye past looks
True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.
hats looks knows
No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.
dirty hunting looks
Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.
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.
countries italy name
There are countries where the organizers don't know what they're doing or what's going on - but I wouldn't name Italy and Spain!
breathe danger die hair image living lost percent spent time war worth
Unting is all that's worth living for - all time is lost wot is not spent in 'unting - it is like the hair we breathe - if we have it not we die - it's the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty percent of its danger
extreme head jump people reaction shave wear
I get a much more extreme reaction when I have my hair really short. I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter. It's a much more extreme reaction.
dreaming dreams enjoy form funny half people time wandering
People think it's funny that I enjoy dreaming so much. I just use it as a form of entertainment. It's very private. I don't see my dreams as separate. I mean, half the time I'm wandering around dreaming anyway.
pretend sent
I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me.
best cure fantastic intention pull sure
I had every intention of 'Bloodflowers' being the last Cure record. I thought it would be fantastic to finish with the best thing we'd ever done, but I wasn't sure we could pull it off.