Robert Smith Quotes

The ultimate part that I want to play in my life is Jimi Hendrix, so I guess I'm drawn to music even though I can't sing or dance very well.

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

I am a big fan of music in general. I listen to all genres: hip-hop, R&B, whatever sounds good to me; it doesn't matter to me where it comes from - there are no boundaries, no fences. If I like it, then it will inspire me to create.

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd.

I've got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV. Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band.

Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. And that's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around.

I have been a huge, huge fan of music ever since I was a kid. Anything to do with music inspires me.

All my life, I call myself wanting to be a lawyer because of Clair Huxtable. But the real dream was to be an actress.

Who influenced me the most? I'd have to say Lauryn Hill, I think she influenced me the most.

Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.

I'd say I did a lot of what I did with songs like 'At My Best' was because of the influence of my daughter.

As a musician, it's only natural that my music mirrors my life.

It all started with music for me. Everything still does.

I looked up to Too Short before I was making my own music.

Since I was three, music's been my life.

That was everything to me as a kid. When I'd see someone on MTV, it was like, 'Wow, they're the real deal.'

I live a life of creating, sharing music with wonderful musicians that I love like family, and spreading a message through music that life is yours to live wide open, and do it your way with love.

Kendrick was a real big inspiration for me. I seen him when I was younger... 'Rigamortis' was out... maybe I was 14... I rapped for him.

Without so much as taking another step towards the field, I turned around, went back into the gym, and I told my coach, 'Jimi Hendrix just died, and I'm quitting the team to become a guitar player.'

I realize how much my life lines up with artists like Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke. My sound comes from church, but the stories come from actual personal experience, being out there in the streets living life.

I figured out that it was important for me to have my identity, just live independently and like being myself, musically.

At first, I didn't think playing guitar was the right thing for me to do. But after seeing Jimi Hendrix on television the day he died, I realized it was a really cool instrument to play and not wimpy at all, which was how I originally perceived it.

I wanted to write picture music ever since I was a kid.

Singers like Gladys Knight are mostly responsible for how I learned to sing.