Creativity Quote by Robert Smith

There’s a deliciously cool menace in this line, the kind that only lands coming from a musician who built a career out of being both misread and impossible to ignore. Robert Smith isn’t asking for approval; he’s declaring inevitability. “They may not like us” nods to the long history of critics, trend-chasers, and gatekeepers treating goth-adjacent emotional maximalism as embarrassment or phase. Then the pivot: “but they can’t get away from knowing who we are.” The phrase “get away” makes recognition feel like a trap, as if indifference is no longer an option.

The intent is less brag than boundary-setting. Smith positions identity as the real victory condition: if the culture tries to exile you, you can still win by becoming un-erasable. It’s the logic of subculture turned inside out. What starts as an outsider stance becomes a kind of brand immortality, not in the corporate sense, but in the way a band’s silhouette, hair, and sound harden into shared cultural shorthand. You don’t have to like The Cure to understand what “The Cure” signals: romantic ruin, loud eyeliner, a certain dignified misery.

The subtext is aimed at anyone who treats taste as power. Smith implies that disdain is parasitic; it still keeps you in the conversation. The line doubles as a survival tactic for artists: when affection is fickle, legibility is leverage. Being known, even by your enemies, is a way of refusing to be edited out.