Robert on 'Wild Mood Swings'...

"I am very satisfied, it became much better than I would have imagined. On the other hand it is also quite the opposite if what I had in mind. When we first got together for this album I had very clear ideas about what I wanted the group to do. I wanted to make something very acoustic and melancholic. The album would have been called "Bare" and I wanted it to have an atmosphere that could be expressed with a string quartet and a piano. But as the record developed, I realized that I was holding back the group and it felt more and more stupid and unpleasant. So finally we decided to just do what we wanted to do. Then all of sudden, songs with totally different moods started to transform. And it feels incredibly good that "Wild Mood Swings" is the result of a group that makes songs together and not by my overblown ego." (Pop Magazine, May 1996).

"Of the 25 songs I've written while I've been down here, around 15 can't be traced back to things I've sung about before, and that I'm really proud of. I never used to be interested in things outside of my own life, but there are actually two or three songs on this LP where I'm observing things, so I suppose I must have changed." (Pusle Magazine, May 1996).

"I still think 'wms' is one of our best albums - 'afterwards' there are always things I'd change about every album we've done - (I'd have made 'wms' quicker for a start!)" (Cure News 19 - May 1998)

"I honestly think this was the best and most complete album I've ever made. Having a new line-up, and having discarded a methodology that I was over-familiar with, I've taken all the elements that I like about being in The Cure and thrown out the ones that I don't. Anyway, I've always thought every last thing we've ever made had been better than the things which came before it. It was the best year of my life making Wild Mood Swings, so there are happy endings". (Cure News 20 - January 1999)

"It reminds me of Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me because there is so much variation on it. If I took out three songs: Gone, Round and Round & the 13th, it would be a good album." (Gaffa (Danish music magazine) February 2000)

'"'Wild Mood Swings' was intentionally kind of really jumbled up, very incoherent and very confusing and that's sort of how the band was at the time." (Rip It Up, February 2000)