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 want
I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.
numbers people want
I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.
rocks care want
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.
want awful legacy
I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.
thinking want cures
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.
desire want made
I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.
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.