“I can write words but I don’t really feel like singing them” Robert Smith reveals why it’s taken so long to make The Cure’s latest album
On 1 November 2024, The Cure released Songs of a Lost World, the group’s fourteenth studio album and their first in sixteen years.
In a new interview, singer Robert Smith reveals why it’s taken so long to make the band’s latest album and the reason he prefers to live in the moment rather than look to the future.
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Speaking to Huw Stephens on BBC Radio 6 Music, Smith — who is the band’s primary songwriter — admits it’s been increasingly difficult penning words into songs that are “worth” performing.
“It’s the one thing, as I’ve grown older, that I’ve found much much harder to do, to write words that I want to sing,” he says. “I can write words but I don’t really feel like singing them.”
“So to arrive at that point where I think that it’s worth singing these songs, it has become really, really hard. I have to admit.”
The musician, who turns 65 this year, also states that he much prefers to live in the moment than concern himself with milestones and anniversaries, even if it doesn’t always come easy.
“When I turned 60, I promised myself that I would stop thinking about anniversaries and upcoming stuff. It is kind of hard,” he says. “The band’s gone through an awful lot in the last year and I’m making light of it but it becomes … You are inevitably encouraged within your own self just to think more about the day to day than you are about… so I’m looking forward to Christmas, I’m not really looking forward to my 70th birthday.”
“If we get to my 70th birthday I’m quite happy for you to blow out the candles but, yeah I don’t think it’s tempting fate but I really just, I’m enjoying what we’re doing at the moment and I don’t really see any point in looking beyond it.”
“For me personally, finishing a second Cure album, I’m almost there with it,” Smith continues.
“Once I’ve done that, then I shall take a deep breath and then I’ll look up, but until I finish it I’m not bothering about what comes next.”
In a previous interview, Smith revealed that he’d planned to retire in 2018, as well as the ‘relief’ he felt when The Cure “got to 2019”.
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