Creativity Quote by Robert Smith

Smith frames breakdown not as failure but as field research. The line has that very Cure-era mix of confession and shrug: an admission of chaos delivered with the cool distance of someone narrating their own weather. "Everyone I know" is doing a lot of work here. It softens the stigma by making extremity communal, almost ordinary, and it hints at a scene - artists, night people, friends living at the edge of regulation. He is saying: this isnt pathology; its the cost of pushing past the polite self.

The phrase "throw out their arms" is physical, theatrical, a little comic - like surrendering to a storm or a dance floor. Then "go beserk" jolts it into something darker, a temporary possession. That swing between gesture and violence captures Smith's signature emotional register: melodrama with teeth. He's also smuggling in a philosophy of experimentation. Limits, in his telling, arent learned through discipline but through transgression; you find the boundary by slamming into it.

Subtextually, the quote is an argument against tidy narratives of self-control. Its also a pre-emptive defense: if youve watched him or listened to the songs, you know the persona is built on excess, on feeling too much and surviving it. "I was just trying to find mine" lands like a final deadpan: not absolution, not tragedy, just motive. In a culture that prizes optimization, Smith makes a case for the messy, unproductive detour - the binge of emotion that teaches you what you can endure, and what you cant.