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
song play world
Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.
song real play
Each time I play a song it seems more real.
thinking play together
When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You're a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn't.
jobs play people
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.
song play knows
You don't really know a song until you play it live.
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.
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.
amount certain older stop tend written
The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something and then you stop and say, 'Wait, I think I've written that before.'
people
You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous.
far quite time
I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable.
felt repressed time
Whatever I was doing, even when I was at school, I never repressed anything that I felt. I wasn't flamboyant; I was actually quite reticent most of the time. But if I felt I had to do something, I did it.
faith rid
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.