Morrissey Quotes

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.

Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.

I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.

I hated the royal wedding.

Everyday is like Sunday Everyday is silent and grey

There's more to life than books you know, but not much more.

I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.

America is not the world.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

I can smell burning flesh... and I hope to God it's human.

Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.

You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.

It may all end tomorrow, or it could go on forever (in which case I'm doomed).

When I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death. And neither one particularly appeals to me.

You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.

I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from the world, I would take it.

My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.

I would rather eat my own testicles than reform The Smiths, and that's saying something for a vegetarian.

I am attracted to humans. But, of course... not many.

You are bound to pick up influences.

In my life why do I smile at people I'd rather kick in the eye?

Boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear.

I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he's proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard.

Unfortunately, I am not homosexual... In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans. But, of course, not many.

I don't mind if you forget me. Having learned my lesson, I never left an impression on anyone.

I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.

In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.

You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.

I'd rather produce art than become art.

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

I wish that Prince Charles had been shot. I think it would have made the world a more interesting place.

With the world's fate resting on your shoulder - you're gonna need someone on your side. You can't do it by yourself any longer - you're gonna need someone on your side.

Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions.

Whoever says the Smiths have split shall be severely spanked by me with a wet plimsoll.

Well, I am an extremely beautiful person.

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.

It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.

Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself; and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense.

Pass the pub that wrecks your body And the church, all they want is your money

Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?

How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy.