Robert Smith Quotes

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.
Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.
Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.
Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.
The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me.
The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.
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.'
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.
There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods.
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.
When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'
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.
When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.
Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on.
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.
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.
You don't always have to sing dark things to be thoughtful.
You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous.
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