Robert Smith Song Quotations

I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.

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.

If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.

Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

You don't really know a song until you play it live.

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.