Robert Smith Quotes

I've written a lot of songs in the last couple years, but writing a lot of songs doesn't always mean writing good songs.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered to write with me, and to be honest, it's not something I've ever really had a passion for - plus I wasn't sure I had the talent to do it!

There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

Anyone would be embarrassed of what they did at 15 or 16. I listen back to that first record, and I'm like, 'Compared to what my contemporaries were doing, it was crappy.' You listen to an early Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera song, and they are great pop songs. I just don't feel like on that first record I got anywhere near anything great.

I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.

I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.

My skills are musical, not lyrical.

I was a 'Big Brother' fan. I thought they were better musicians than their detractors claimed, but more to the point, technical accomplishment was not something I cared about.

I don't think I'm a good-enough songwriter.

I have one message for young musicians around the world: Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.

I think Robbie Williams is an utter and complete prat. His last record was a pile of rubbish.

It's a rare combination to have someone who can write songs and sing well.

I love hip hop, and I have a bunch of urban songs I write for fun that I can't put on my albums because people would laugh and point.

For people who write songs, it's a gift you're given. You become good at the craft, but you're given the gift.

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

I'm the kind of person who lives my art. It's not that I want to necessarily do it: it's that I have to. It's always been that way. That's how I write songs, and it's always been this way.

I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write songs was because I thought, 'Well, if they can write them, I can write them.'

I started writing out all of my feelings, and people asked me, 'Have you ever thought of recording your music?' It was something I'd always thought of, but I'd never really had the confidence.

If people are given the right circumstances and the right track and the right melody, it's about the conviction. It's not necessarily about being a God-given virtuoso.

I have a thing about inane lyrics - the world doesn't need them.

I'd love to do something with Bruno Mars because I love his voice and the playful and intelligent way he delivers a song.

I've always idolized people who can write songs.

I wish I was really talented in music because then I would be doing it. I felt that I could write a decent song, but it was a big struggle.