MusicHow quitting smoking was the ‘most important’ decision for The Cure’s Robert Smith

Known as the singer of the British rock band The Cure, Robert Smith revealed that quitting smoking was the “most important” decision for preserving his voice, which featured songs like “Friday I’m in Love,” “Boys Don’t Cry” and “In Between Days.”

During an interview with John Kennedy in Radio Xthe artist participated in a painting that presented all the tracks of Songs of a Lost Worldthe group’s most recent studio album. At a certain point, Smith discussed his views on mortality and decisions he made so he could continue with his The Cure.

Despite starting the band as a teenager in the 1970s, he didn’t take steps to preserve his own well-being and voice until he was 40. “I’m lucky to have the genes I do, because I didn’t pay much attention to longevity in my personal life until I was 50,” he said.

“I was surprised that I made it to 50 and then I started thinking that I’d probably like to make it to 60. And then I started to moderate it a little bit. Then you turn 60,” he continued. “Actually, every year is a bonus for me. So I suppose as a consequence of that, my voice has probably held up a lot longer than I thought.”

One of the decisions was precisely to stop smoking when he reached 40, with the aim of preserving both his health and his voice: “It was the most important thing I did, actually. I turned 40 and I thought: I’m never going to smoke again. And I I don’t have.”

I think this is basically, with a few other things, [o que] It allowed me to continue doing what I do. But that being said, there are people I know who are singers and who take care of themselves, but then their voices disappear. It’s just one of those things.

“My voice will give out at some point… but I said recently that my dad would sing every day until he was 90. He would tell me, like, keep singing. He always said that to me. Keep singing until people tell you to stop,” he concluded Robert Smith.